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Amazon Kindle - Who has it? Who wants it?

Will you be ordering the Amazon Kindle?

  • No, I already own it.

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • Yes, I will be ordering it.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Yes, but I want the second generation.

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • Yes, but waiting for the price to come down.

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • What is a Kindle?

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • I hate Polls

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • No, they are a joke.

    Votes: 3 25.0%

  • Total voters
    12
  • Poll closed .
Murdoch's ultimatum to Amazon: Give us Kindle subscriber names or else

Murdoch's ultimatum to Amazon: Give us Kindle subscriber names or else

Rupert Murdoch's mad as hell, and he's not going to take it anymore. High-handed treatment from Amazon, that is.

On News Corp.'s (NWS) fiscal-year-end earnings call with analysts, the notoriously shoot-from-the-hip mogul suggested that The Wall Street Journal will cease to be available on the Kindle e-reader unless Amazon starts offering a more generous revenue split and more publisher-friendly policies.

Murdoch acknowledged that the Journal recently negotiated a slightly larger share of the revenues Amazon gets from selling Kindle subscriptions to the paper, "but it's not a big number, and we're not encouraging it at all because we don't get the names of the subscribers," he said. "Kindle treats them as their subscribers, not as ours, and I think that will eventually cause a break with us."

Jeff Bezos, consider yourself warned.
 
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