“It remains to be seen if it’s good in the long run but what’s exciting is Amazon has proven the ability to move product,” said Ben Gottlieb, president of mobile app maker Stand Alone Inc. “It all depends on the implementation. But if they live up to what they say, we can make more money.”
That’s a real issue. Gottlieb, who sells a crossword app, says he makes 20-30 times more selling his apps in the App Store compared to Android Market. It’s gotten a little better lately, but it’s still discouraging trying to sell in Android Market, which has more than 80,000 apps. Developers like Gottlieb say the store needs more recommendation and discovery tools, more categories, a better check-out system and more marketing muscle. These are all things that Amazon could immediately address.
Arron La, maker of the Advanced Task Manager app, said Amazon could help ignite sales by giving better recommendation tips and making checkouts easier for users. He said Google Checkout can be a nightmare at times, sometimes charging people multiple times for one app. A reliable and familiar system like Amazon’s could prompt people to open up their wallets, something they don’t do that much of in the Android Market. He also hopes that Amazon will do more to promote apps and advertise its app store, which Google has shied away from.
Google, for its part, is working on a number of changes, including a new web-based Android Market and a reported deal with PayPal for payments. And it just expanded the number of countries that can buy paid apps.Even with those improvements, La feels better about Amazon because the company seems more committed to making money, something Google seems less interested in. Google claims it doesn’t make any money from Android Market.
“Once you have the right things in place and you get that ecosystem going, you can definitely make money out of it,” he said. “But that’s been what’s hurting Android Market. Everyone using Google devices, they want and expect everything for free. When Google released Android market, they had no paid apps in the beginning.”
To be sure, an Amazon Android store or a similar market from Verizon Wireless could be a headache for developers. Developers would have to get in the habit of submitting and updating apps in multiple markets. Users might get confused as to who to turn to for apps or support. Amazon will have the ability to turn down apps and has stated it won’t approve offensive or pornographic content. It could lead to some gripes from developers about rejected apps, similar to complaints about the App Store, and it’s unclear if it will be as easy as one click to buy an app and get it on an Android device.
If Amazon proves to be a real player in the app market, expect a lot of developers to look Amazon’s way. They’ll be happy to get something closer to an App Store experience for their apps. “Apple is about the making the whole experience pleasant while Google is just focused on getting the job done and it’s not always pretty,” Gottlieb said. “Amazon is somewhere in between and it’s definitely closer to Apple than Google.”
Related research from GigaOM Pro (subscription req’d):
- Why Google Launched App Inventor
- Is Amazon the New Self-Publish Kingpin?
- Why Carriers Still Hold the Key to Handset Sales
Amazon today announced that it’s “reaching out to publishers and accomplished writers” to produce 10,000 to 30,000 word “Kindle Singles”, which it says equals about “twice the length of a New Yorker feature” but not “long enough to deliver the “heft” required for book marketing and distribution.” Do you know who is going to love this? Academics, that’s who.
Which is exactly who Amazon is targeting with Kindle Singles.
While buying (paper) books on Amazon has been a staple of the college scene for a decade, we’re pretty sure that Amazon still hasn’t hit the stride that it would like to have with college eBook and/or Kindle sales. The bookseller tried to push the Kindle DX onto the education market, but it was too big and too expensive. Sorry Amazon, but that’s the truth. Beyond that, teachers/professors are often locked into paper book deals, and it’s pretty hard to make a class full of students drop $300+ on a ereader just so they can participate in class.
However, things are rapidly changing. Not only is the Kindle 3 WiFi model a very reasonable $139 (and we wouldn’t be surprised at all if it drops to $99 for the holidays), but Amazon now has Kindle apps for nearly every smartphone, as well as for the iPad, so the hardware barrier has been greatly reduced. That said, there is still those pesky paper books to deal with – and Amazon’s answer to bridge to gap between now and when all reading is done electronically (which of course will happen some day) would seem to Kindle Singles.
How could Kindle Singles help to bridge that gap? Well, back to the press release Amazon put out today:
“Today’s announcement is a call to serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers to join Amazon in making such works available to readers around the world. Ideas and the words to deliver them should be crafted to their natural length, not to an artificial marketing length that justifies a particular price or a certain format”
“Serious writers, thinkers, scientists” and “historians” sure sounds like college professors to us, and the length of the Singles is about exactly what a serious academic journal article or research paper comes out to, isn’t it? Those articles certainly are “crafted to their natural length” more or less, and academic book publishers – unless the book is an edited selection of essays – don’t touch those kinds of article with a ten foot pole: they simply can’t sell them. In academic circles, however, journal articles are the meat in the college sandwich, and right now on the Kindle, these are mainly read as PDFs. However, give academics the opportunity to not only get their writings out to “readers around the world”, but also make some money (especially without having to give their cut to the publishers) in the process…they are going to line up to write Singles, and Amazon knows it.
That said, for right now, Amazon is playing nice with publishers by saying “we’re reaching out to publishers and accomplished writers” but that is just a nicety that Amazon has to do at this point. In the not-too-distant-future, we fully expect Amazon to open this up to many more people – especially hungry-to-get-published-academics. When those young, hip, professors and teaching assistants can point their students to their latest journal article/Kindle Single on Amazon.com, then we’ll start to see the real tipping point in academics towards ereading.
Kindle Singles are nothing short of brilliant on Amazon’s part.
Related articles
- Staples To Sell Amazon’s Kindle (thenextweb.com)
- Amazon’s New Kindle Is A Smashing Success (thenextweb.com)
- Amazon Adding 10,000 Books A Week To US Kindle Store (thenextweb.com)
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“It remains to be seen if it’s good in the long run but what’s exciting is Amazon has proven the ability to move product,” said Ben Gottlieb, president of mobile app maker Stand Alone Inc. “It all depends on the implementation. But if they live up to what they say, we can make more money.”
That’s a real issue. Gottlieb, who sells a crossword app, says he makes 20-30 times more selling his apps in the App Store compared to Android Market. It’s gotten a little better lately, but it’s still discouraging trying to sell in Android Market, which has more than 80,000 apps. Developers like Gottlieb say the store needs more recommendation and discovery tools, more categories, a better check-out system and more marketing muscle. These are all things that Amazon could immediately address.
Arron La, maker of the Advanced Task Manager app, said Amazon could help ignite sales by giving better recommendation tips and making checkouts easier for users. He said Google Checkout can be a nightmare at times, sometimes charging people multiple times for one app. A reliable and familiar system like Amazon’s could prompt people to open up their wallets, something they don’t do that much of in the Android Market. He also hopes that Amazon will do more to promote apps and advertise its app store, which Google has shied away from.
Google, for its part, is working on a number of changes, including a new web-based Android Market and a reported deal with PayPal for payments. And it just expanded the number of countries that can buy paid apps.Even with those improvements, La feels better about Amazon because the company seems more committed to making money, something Google seems less interested in. Google claims it doesn’t make any money from Android Market.
“Once you have the right things in place and you get that ecosystem going, you can definitely make money out of it,” he said. “But that’s been what’s hurting Android Market. Everyone using Google devices, they want and expect everything for free. When Google released Android market, they had no paid apps in the beginning.”
To be sure, an Amazon Android store or a similar market from Verizon Wireless could be a headache for developers. Developers would have to get in the habit of submitting and updating apps in multiple markets. Users might get confused as to who to turn to for apps or support. Amazon will have the ability to turn down apps and has stated it won’t approve offensive or pornographic content. It could lead to some gripes from developers about rejected apps, similar to complaints about the App Store, and it’s unclear if it will be as easy as one click to buy an app and get it on an Android device.
If Amazon proves to be a real player in the app market, expect a lot of developers to look Amazon’s way. They’ll be happy to get something closer to an App Store experience for their apps. “Apple is about the making the whole experience pleasant while Google is just focused on getting the job done and it’s not always pretty,” Gottlieb said. “Amazon is somewhere in between and it’s definitely closer to Apple than Google.”
Related research from GigaOM Pro (subscription req’d):
- Why Google Launched App Inventor
- Is Amazon the New Self-Publish Kingpin?
- Why Carriers Still Hold the Key to Handset Sales
Amazon today announced that it’s “reaching out to publishers and accomplished writers” to produce 10,000 to 30,000 word “Kindle Singles”, which it says equals about “twice the length of a New Yorker feature” but not “long enough to deliver the “heft” required for book marketing and distribution.” Do you know who is going to love this? Academics, that’s who.
Which is exactly who Amazon is targeting with Kindle Singles.
While buying (paper) books on Amazon has been a staple of the college scene for a decade, we’re pretty sure that Amazon still hasn’t hit the stride that it would like to have with college eBook and/or Kindle sales. The bookseller tried to push the Kindle DX onto the education market, but it was too big and too expensive. Sorry Amazon, but that’s the truth. Beyond that, teachers/professors are often locked into paper book deals, and it’s pretty hard to make a class full of students drop $300+ on a ereader just so they can participate in class.
However, things are rapidly changing. Not only is the Kindle 3 WiFi model a very reasonable $139 (and we wouldn’t be surprised at all if it drops to $99 for the holidays), but Amazon now has Kindle apps for nearly every smartphone, as well as for the iPad, so the hardware barrier has been greatly reduced. That said, there is still those pesky paper books to deal with – and Amazon’s answer to bridge to gap between now and when all reading is done electronically (which of course will happen some day) would seem to Kindle Singles.
How could Kindle Singles help to bridge that gap? Well, back to the press release Amazon put out today:
“Today’s announcement is a call to serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers to join Amazon in making such works available to readers around the world. Ideas and the words to deliver them should be crafted to their natural length, not to an artificial marketing length that justifies a particular price or a certain format”
“Serious writers, thinkers, scientists” and “historians” sure sounds like college professors to us, and the length of the Singles is about exactly what a serious academic journal article or research paper comes out to, isn’t it? Those articles certainly are “crafted to their natural length” more or less, and academic book publishers – unless the book is an edited selection of essays – don’t touch those kinds of article with a ten foot pole: they simply can’t sell them. In academic circles, however, journal articles are the meat in the college sandwich, and right now on the Kindle, these are mainly read as PDFs. However, give academics the opportunity to not only get their writings out to “readers around the world”, but also make some money (especially without having to give their cut to the publishers) in the process…they are going to line up to write Singles, and Amazon knows it.
That said, for right now, Amazon is playing nice with publishers by saying “we’re reaching out to publishers and accomplished writers” but that is just a nicety that Amazon has to do at this point. In the not-too-distant-future, we fully expect Amazon to open this up to many more people – especially hungry-to-get-published-academics. When those young, hip, professors and teaching assistants can point their students to their latest journal article/Kindle Single on Amazon.com, then we’ll start to see the real tipping point in academics towards ereading.
Kindle Singles are nothing short of brilliant on Amazon’s part.
Related articles
- Staples To Sell Amazon’s Kindle (thenextweb.com)
- Amazon’s New Kindle Is A Smashing Success (thenextweb.com)
- Amazon Adding 10,000 Books A Week To US Kindle Store (thenextweb.com)
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“It remains to be seen if it’s good in the long run but what’s exciting is Amazon has proven the ability to move product,” said Ben Gottlieb, president of mobile app maker Stand Alone Inc. “It all depends on the implementation. But if they live up to what they say, we can make more money.”
That’s a real issue. Gottlieb, who sells a crossword app, says he makes 20-30 times more selling his apps in the App Store compared to Android Market. It’s gotten a little better lately, but it’s still discouraging trying to sell in Android Market, which has more than 80,000 apps. Developers like Gottlieb say the store needs more recommendation and discovery tools, more categories, a better check-out system and more marketing muscle. These are all things that Amazon could immediately address.
Arron La, maker of the Advanced Task Manager app, said Amazon could help ignite sales by giving better recommendation tips and making checkouts easier for users. He said Google Checkout can be a nightmare at times, sometimes charging people multiple times for one app. A reliable and familiar system like Amazon’s could prompt people to open up their wallets, something they don’t do that much of in the Android Market. He also hopes that Amazon will do more to promote apps and advertise its app store, which Google has shied away from.
Google, for its part, is working on a number of changes, including a new web-based Android Market and a reported deal with PayPal for payments. And it just expanded the number of countries that can buy paid apps.Even with those improvements, La feels better about Amazon because the company seems more committed to making money, something Google seems less interested in. Google claims it doesn’t make any money from Android Market.
“Once you have the right things in place and you get that ecosystem going, you can definitely make money out of it,” he said. “But that’s been what’s hurting Android Market. Everyone using Google devices, they want and expect everything for free. When Google released Android market, they had no paid apps in the beginning.”
To be sure, an Amazon Android store or a similar market from Verizon Wireless could be a headache for developers. Developers would have to get in the habit of submitting and updating apps in multiple markets. Users might get confused as to who to turn to for apps or support. Amazon will have the ability to turn down apps and has stated it won’t approve offensive or pornographic content. It could lead to some gripes from developers about rejected apps, similar to complaints about the App Store, and it’s unclear if it will be as easy as one click to buy an app and get it on an Android device.
If Amazon proves to be a real player in the app market, expect a lot of developers to look Amazon’s way. They’ll be happy to get something closer to an App Store experience for their apps. “Apple is about the making the whole experience pleasant while Google is just focused on getting the job done and it’s not always pretty,” Gottlieb said. “Amazon is somewhere in between and it’s definitely closer to Apple than Google.”
Related research from GigaOM Pro (subscription req’d):
- Why Google Launched App Inventor
- Is Amazon the New Self-Publish Kingpin?
- Why Carriers Still Hold the Key to Handset Sales
Amazon today announced that it’s “reaching out to publishers and accomplished writers” to produce 10,000 to 30,000 word “Kindle Singles”, which it says equals about “twice the length of a New Yorker feature” but not “long enough to deliver the “heft” required for book marketing and distribution.” Do you know who is going to love this? Academics, that’s who.
Which is exactly who Amazon is targeting with Kindle Singles.
While buying (paper) books on Amazon has been a staple of the college scene for a decade, we’re pretty sure that Amazon still hasn’t hit the stride that it would like to have with college eBook and/or Kindle sales. The bookseller tried to push the Kindle DX onto the education market, but it was too big and too expensive. Sorry Amazon, but that’s the truth. Beyond that, teachers/professors are often locked into paper book deals, and it’s pretty hard to make a class full of students drop $300+ on a ereader just so they can participate in class.
However, things are rapidly changing. Not only is the Kindle 3 WiFi model a very reasonable $139 (and we wouldn’t be surprised at all if it drops to $99 for the holidays), but Amazon now has Kindle apps for nearly every smartphone, as well as for the iPad, so the hardware barrier has been greatly reduced. That said, there is still those pesky paper books to deal with – and Amazon’s answer to bridge to gap between now and when all reading is done electronically (which of course will happen some day) would seem to Kindle Singles.
How could Kindle Singles help to bridge that gap? Well, back to the press release Amazon put out today:
“Today’s announcement is a call to serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers to join Amazon in making such works available to readers around the world. Ideas and the words to deliver them should be crafted to their natural length, not to an artificial marketing length that justifies a particular price or a certain format”
“Serious writers, thinkers, scientists” and “historians” sure sounds like college professors to us, and the length of the Singles is about exactly what a serious academic journal article or research paper comes out to, isn’t it? Those articles certainly are “crafted to their natural length” more or less, and academic book publishers – unless the book is an edited selection of essays – don’t touch those kinds of article with a ten foot pole: they simply can’t sell them. In academic circles, however, journal articles are the meat in the college sandwich, and right now on the Kindle, these are mainly read as PDFs. However, give academics the opportunity to not only get their writings out to “readers around the world”, but also make some money (especially without having to give their cut to the publishers) in the process…they are going to line up to write Singles, and Amazon knows it.
That said, for right now, Amazon is playing nice with publishers by saying “we’re reaching out to publishers and accomplished writers” but that is just a nicety that Amazon has to do at this point. In the not-too-distant-future, we fully expect Amazon to open this up to many more people – especially hungry-to-get-published-academics. When those young, hip, professors and teaching assistants can point their students to their latest journal article/Kindle Single on Amazon.com, then we’ll start to see the real tipping point in academics towards ereading.
Kindle Singles are nothing short of brilliant on Amazon’s part.
Related articles
- Staples To Sell Amazon’s Kindle (thenextweb.com)
- Amazon’s New Kindle Is A Smashing Success (thenextweb.com)
- Amazon Adding 10,000 Books A Week To US Kindle Store (thenextweb.com)
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Blogs are here to stay and if you want to own one or even make money out of one then its best that you give this article a quick read over, it includes a few ways you can monetize your blog and earn money from it, don't be fooled there are lots of ways to make money on or with your blog, this is just a quick guide/article, I hope you find it both useful and helpful.
So then by now I imagine you have a blog set up or re in the process of starting up a blog, whichever option here are a few ways you can make money with a blog:
1. You could add google ad sense, this is whereby you sign up for a google account and once approved google place adverts on your blog and you get paid every time somebody valid (fraudulent clicks are not aloud) clicks on one of your adverts. Adsense is easy to get started on and is free to signup for.
2. You could be an affiliate, you could sell other peoples products and services on your blog, from selling hair pieces to holidays you could earn a commission for each and every sale you make.
Find products, businesses or services that compliment your blog, its topic, style or writing and so on. Use banners, posts and much more to make affiliate marketing work for both you and your blog.
3. You could try your hand at selling your own products. You could buy and sell stuff on your blog, or maybe even make and sell your own products. If you have a large audience (or are aiming for a large audience/followers/viewers and readers) then this could be a brilliant option for you. Work out what you could sell that would compliment your blog and get on it.
These are just a few ways to make money with your blog, but they are good ones to get started with. Remember your blog will not make you millions overnight, but If you build it up, get a good reputation and make it informative then who knows, maybe you could look at making a steady income in the future.
Making money from any blog takes time, patience and dedication as you need people to be interested in your blog, you need to get followers, subscribers, buyers and much more, it is possible it just requires a little bit of planning and preparation with regards to what you want to do, with your blog when and why. I wish you luck and success in making money from or with your blog.
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She accuses him of making "hate speech"; he says he refuses to sugar coat "harsh realities"
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It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
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