Effective December 1, magazine and newspaper publishers will be eligible to earn a larger cut — 70% of the retail price, minus delivery costs — of the proceeds from sales of their titles in the Kindle Store, Amazon announced this morning. Previously, publishers of periodicals received a mere 30% of each title they sold through the Kindle Store. To qualify for the more generous revenue split, publishers are required to make their content available on all Kindle devices and applications. Google on Tuesday plans to augment its Continue Reading

The Kindle Store is beating the iBook store according to one author that sells double what he sells on iBook store than on the Kindle Store. I think the idea that books are dead is ridiculous. It is definitely going to change things and many innovations will be made with distribution but there will always be books. Not because: "people love paper" or "books smell good" but because paperbacks are cheap and people like to display what they have read on a shelf. 3Par deal is more important to Dell than to HP. HP made an unsolicited bid for 3Par that marked a 33% premium to a deal Dell and 3Pa

Facebook has launched Facebook Questions a way for people to ask questions and other users to answer according to their interests. It is very similar to a service called Aardvark (vark.com) that earlier this year was bought by Google. Sprint is paying for a creative campaign where cable TV channel G4 has changed its name to "4g" for the week to promote Sprint's Evo phone and 4g network. Youtube has increased it's video time limit to 15 minutes. Great, even more content to waste time! Amazon came out with a new Kindle today. There goal seems to be to make it faster, cheaper and lighter