A few details following yesterday’s press conference. Pace University has joined the five other universities in Amazon’s higher education pilot program for SuperKindle–and their provost underscored that about 50 students are involved. (That’s thought to be the comparable number at the five other schools.) But that’s almost $150,000 in sales right there. Pace expects to split the cost of the devices with the students. Meanwhile, Dallas Morning News ceo James Moroney explained why so few newspapers (just 37) are available on Kindle and why SuperKindle certainly won’t save them. “Amazon wanted 70 per cent of any subscription revenues his paper […]
