Kindle, iPad, MacMillan, and the Death of a Business Model

Pajamas Media ^ | Feb. 2 | Charlie MArtin

[AJKauf]

f you visited Amazon.com this weekend, hoping to buy a book that happened to have been published by MacMillan, you got a rude surprise. You couldn’t do it. Whether you hoped to buy an e-book for the Kindle, or an old-fashioned physical book, Amazon wouldn’t sell it to you. In a protest against the pricing model that MacMillan and other publishers had negotiated with Apple for the iBookstore, Amazon simply removed the “buy” button from MacMillan’s books.

The protest didn’t last very long — just long enough to be noticed and to make the New York Times on the evening of January 29....

[VRWCtaz]

Have you done an update for your Kindle OS? One aspect of the most recent one was to enable direct transfer of .pdf to the Kindle 2 just like the DX. I think the update was issued just before Christmas. I load them directly via usb with no problem.

As for calibre; I have it set to download the WP, AP, and The American Spectator each morning at 5:00. Then I just plug in my Kindle later in the morning for less than a minute and I have my morning mobile news fix.

[kaylar]

Nah, we just got it for Christmas, so I ASSume we’re just using whatever came loaded with the K2. I’ll ask SO to look into this-he’s the techie.