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As you have requested, The Big Picture is now available on the Kindle:
What was kinda weird is that I have no control over the pricing, availablility, etc.
The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight. ~Jesse Livermore
Without getting into a discussion on healthcare and its politics, one reality of our soon to be new system is the inevitable further rise in government spending that is headed to 25% of US GDP from its long term average of about 20%. In order to finance this, there will be a smaller private sector and as a result, there will be slower economic growth as nothing is for free. Should the average P/E ratio over the past 100 years of 15x still apply going forward or should there be a revaluation of the multiple paid for US corporate earnings?...
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June 25th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
When will Bailout Nation be available for Kindle?
June 25th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
This is great, thanks for letting us know. I just signed up for it. I hope you get a portion of the big monthly fee.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Just out of curosity, what’s the revenue model? How much do you get? How much does wordpress get? Is it Amazon just pulling the rss feed?
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BR: No idea — you submit the URL, and they determine the price.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Nice! The more distribution of your material the better.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
It’s nice that big-time bloggers have another source of revenue, but I have a hard time understanding why anyone would pay $2 for free content. Convenience, right? It’s not that convenient.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Amazon has caught a lot of flack recently for bullying people around and setting pricing conditions.
Another oligopoly?
June 25th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
I’m sure they are out there…but I personally have never seen a Kindle in public and know no person who either owns one or has ever mentioned one.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
alfred e,
less ‘Oligopoly’, more ‘Walled Garden’.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_garden_(media)
wikipedia gets this one correct.
further: http://www.oligopolywatch.com/
June 26th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
why the hell does anybody own a kindle?
June 26th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Well Jeff Macke used to mention his all the time but IM PRETTY SURE HE DIDNT PAY FOR IT HIMSELF ya think?
June 28th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Steve Barry, Bob A…think back to 30 years ago, then replace the word “Kindle” in your comments with the phrase “mobile phone.” A Kindle-like device will be what your grandkids use for their school textbooks. They’ll wonder why we dedicate entire rooms of our homes to housing paper books that are non-unsearchable and often non-portable. My Kindle goes with me everywhere. I can’t say the same for my extensive paper library. The society will continue to move toward mobility and ubiquity, even if some of us don’t see a reason to.