http://www.blogkindle.com/2007/12/amazons-digital-text-platform-why-you-should-sign-up-now/ Daily News about Amazon's new e-book reader Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:25:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.blogkindle.com/2007/12/amazons-digital-text-platform-why-you-should-sign-up-now/#comment-14 Alice Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:46:17 +0000 http://www.blogkindle.com/archives/2007/12/amazons-digital-text-platform-why-you-should-sign-up-now/#comment-14 Exciting stuff indeed, as a writer I am most excited about Amazon's DTP service. It will give me the freedom to write and distribute my content on my terms not the publishers. Exciting stuff indeed, as a writer I am most excited about Amazon’s DTP service. It will give me the freedom to write and distribute my content on my terms not the publishers.

]]> http://www.blogkindle.com/2007/12/amazons-digital-text-platform-why-you-should-sign-up-now/#comment-12 Rick Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:01:24 +0000 http://www.blogkindle.com/archives/2007/12/amazons-digital-text-platform-why-you-should-sign-up-now/#comment-12 I think the DTP service may do for writers what a lot of Internet music sites have done for unsigned bands; it is essentially a way to distribute content to a small party of interested individuals with the potential upside of capturing a large audience (going "viral") via word-of-mouth and social networking sites. This isn't much different from what a writer could possibly accomplish (however remote the chances) simply by putting up a web page...except there's the ready-made prospect of a revenue stream (complete with a transaction processing system the writer doesn't have to worry about or arrange for) and better target marketing built-in! --Yet another example of "the long tail" in action. Exciting stuff! I think the DTP service may do for writers what a lot of Internet music sites have done for unsigned bands; it is essentially a way to distribute content to a small party of interested individuals with the potential upside of capturing a large audience (going “viral”) via word-of-mouth and social networking sites. This isn’t much different from what a writer could possibly accomplish (however remote the chances) simply by putting up a web page…except there’s the ready-made prospect of a revenue stream (complete with a transaction processing system the writer doesn’t have to worry about or arrange for) and better target marketing built-in! –Yet another example of “the long tail” in action. Exciting stuff!

]]> http://www.blogkindle.com/2007/12/amazons-digital-text-platform-why-you-should-sign-up-now/#comment-5 Amazon’s Digital Text Platform: Why You Should Sign-up NOW! | The Kindle Report Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:32:17 +0000 http://www.blogkindle.com/archives/2007/12/amazons-digital-text-platform-why-you-should-sign-up-now/#comment-5 [...] More: continued here [...] [...] More: continued here [...]

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