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The other way ebooks prices are changing

Gaston — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:17:49 +0000

Amazon’s troubles with publishers have focused mostly on how the publishers want Amazon to charge more for ebooks. But what about when the $9.99 price is too high?

Take a recent bestseller for instance: The Da Vinci Code. Based on the seeming endless availability of used and new copies, the Kindle price is already adjusted to balance the reader’s wish to get an immediate copy with the abundance of supply.

I foresee Amazon increasingly tweaking prices in this way – in the meantime it’s you can find other $9.99 Kindle versions competing with a cheap used copy, and look for more used book price arbitrage opportunities.

Cultural differences in mobile phone usage

Gaston — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:16:15 +0000

Here’s a review of how cell phones are used in different countries – interesting background for those of us in the wireless industry.

http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15172850

How many pizza joints does 98004 need?

Gaston — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:21:12 +0000

2010 will be remembered as the year of the “great pizza war” for downtown Bellevue. Already well supplied in pizza delivery/restaurants, newcomers are vying to feed the round red objects to the new condo and office dwellers.

Zeek’s is peparing to displace Nature’s Pantry on 10th, and I just saw another pepperoni palace going up on Bellevue Way.

I anticipate some fine discounts in 2010… hopefully they will all join the gluten-free bandwagon.