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Fire phone, Kindle Fire, LivingSocial … The flops of the US giant Amazon – RTL.fr
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The founder Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is accused of being a bully in the “New York Times”
posted on 09/11/2015 at 10:30
The ambition was great. Competing with giants like Samsung o u Apple field of smartphones. The giant Amazon believed hard as iron in 2014 with the launch of its fire phone. Unveiled during a presentation modeled on the keynotes of Steve Jobs smartphone never managed to attract buyers . Faced with this failure, Amazon had greatly reduced the selling price. $ 200 with a subscription, the fire phone was rose to 0.99 dollars . In just three months, the smartphone had caused a loss of $ 170 million and unsold stock estimated at 83 million. It took one year for the giant of online business success at any flow and stop the sale.
A failure largely due to the specific that have not packed potential buyers . His application was less catalog provided as Apple and Google. Sold too much , running an operating system home, it was marketed in the United States in an exclusive partnership with AT & operator; T. Failure is not the first for Amazon.
The Kindle Fire
The Reader Amazon had yet known an encouraging start . In 2011, during its marketing, nearly 5 million copies are sold in the last three months of the year. It must be said that the tablet market was not yet saturated. But six months later, the Kindle Fire seems outdated. Amazon only sells 1.2 million in the second quarter of 2012, from 16.8% of market share to 5% .
Kozmo.com
In 2000, Amazon invested $ 60 million in the start-up Kozmo.com, which offers delivery shampoo for free in less than an hour. In April 2001, the start-up puts the key under the door after the explosion of the Internet bubble.
Askville.com
Undeterred by Kozmo adventure, Amazon decides to support Askville.com, participatory project where users ask and answer their questions . In a statement from 2007, the creators explain that users answer a question convertible earn virtual gold Amazon vouchers. The site still exists and users are still wondering why. Witnessed one of the last questions asked on the platform, “Why Amazon is he even bothers to support Askville.com?”
LivingSocial
In 2010, Amazon put $ 175 million in the competitor to Groupon: LivingSocial. The site makes bulk purchases for various activities to get discounts and offer them to users. But LivingSocial does not meet the same success as its predecessor. Amazon loses almost all the money invested in 2012 , sending the online retail giant in the red for a year.
Failures far to put his evil CEO comfortable. Jeff Bezos assumes indeed culture of failure. “I have been failures that have cost billions of dollars at Amazon, he explained in December 2014 at a conference. My job is to encourage people to be bold. Now, if we make paris daring, this leads to experiments which are often inherently doomed to failure “
by Eleanor Douet
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Amazon Kindle Fire tablet launch a really low cost – ITespresso.fr
New offensive Amazon in the segment of tablets. Soon a model 6 inches to 50 dollars?
Amazon persists in the segment of tablets available at a cheap price.
The Wall Street Journal, the e-commerce group of Jeff Bezos could launch a new offensive by Christmas. With a tablet model proposed … and costs 50 dollars. Knowing that the Internet merchant firm already markets a range of shelves Fire HD and HDX.
Amazon is not at its trial run to offer very price tablets low, even cut corners on its margins. A good way to gain market share in order to push its own services via Fire OS, the Android fork that equips its shelves (and its smartphone fire phone).
Currently, the model entry level is at 99 euros with Fire HD 6, also has a 6 inch screen
Admittedly some concessions. at this rate, advertisements are displayed on the screen saver model called “Special offers” (there is a model devoid of advertising 114 euros).
The next tablet at $ 50 she will follow this advertising model?
Despite this low price, Amazon maintains a fairly good level of equipment with a display resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels (or superior to HD), 8GB of storage, a processor 4 cores clocked up 1.5 GHz and two NPC (one at the back with 2-megapixel sensor).
now remains to know the technical details of a tablet offered at a rate as low as 50 dollars. The performance must be sufficient to maintain a compelling user experience, which is not trivial with BOM (Bill of Materials) reduced to a trickle.
Amazon would bet the ultra low cost to revive the interest of users for tablets.
Meanwhile, Apple might try the opposite and trying to revive the tablet market with the iPad Pro, a more effective tablet and therefore probably more expensive than the current iPad.
But Amazon also would provide renewed its range of tablets with two new models with screens 8 and 10 inches. This would replace the current Fire HDX 8.9 inch screen.
Other products could also emerge from the side of Amazon. One thinks of the computer for the kitchen (code name “Kabinet”), on which the Lab126 plancherait. The unit would incorporate the same voice recognition technology that the personal assistant Echo launched by Amazon last year in North America.
Amazon expands to the whole world its Kindle edition Scout program – RTBF
The US giant Amazon online distribution announced Wednesday it was expanding its ebooks books publishing program selected based on votes of online titled Kindle Scout, and he now opened authors around the world.
This program allows authors to submit manuscripts, exclusively in English, which can be published as an electronic book for Amazon Kindle Press. This possibility was open far as authors in the United States.
“Now, in addition to American authors, others based in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, India and other countries can submit their writings, the size of a new, English, and we will study the possibility of publishing, “said Amazon in a statement.
This initiative enables readers to read passages of proposed manuscripts and to choose which they would like to see published in full.
So far, 75 titles were selected for publication by Press Kindle, according to Amazon. The authors receive 1,500 dollars in advance and 50% of revenues generated from the sales of their ebook.
“Extending our platform to authors and readers who reside outside the United States was a request that we frequently received since the launch of this program, “said Dina Hilal, CEO of Kindle Scout.
” With our announcement today, we look forward to the new stories that will be received talented writers around the world, “she said.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Amazon expands to the whole world its Kindle edition Scout program – LaPresse.ca
This program allows authors to submit manuscripts, exclusively in English, which can be published as an electronic book for Amazon Kindle Press. This possibility was open far as authors in the United States.
“Now, in addition to American authors, others based in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, India and other countries can submit their writings, the size of a new, English, and we will study the possibility of publishing, “said Amazon in a statement.
This initiative enables readers to read passages of proposed manuscripts and to choose which they would like to see published in full.
So far 75 titles were selected Press for publication by Kindle, according to Amazon. The authors receive 1500 dollars in advance and 50% of revenues generated from the sales of their e-book.
“Extending our platform to authors and readers who reside outside the United States was a request that we have frequently received since the launch of this program, “said Dina Hilal, CEO of Kindle Scout.
” With our announcement today we look forward to new stories that will send us to talented writers around the world, “she said.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Amazon Kindle Fire could launch a $ 50 – Fredzone
Amazon would it be preparing us a nice surprise for the end of the year? This seems to be the case. According to the Wall Street Journal, the US giant actually consider launching a new Kindle Fire with a 6-inch screen. Interesting, but there are better because it could be offered from 50 dollars. And no, he does not miss a number.
It is only a rumor at the moment, of course, but the Wall Street Journal seems pretty sure of him. It actually hold this information from several different sources
Amazon might launch soon a new Kindle Fire at a knockdown price.
According to the venerable publication, Amazon would therefore working on a new compact touch pad, with a footprint similar to that of his reading lights.
As mentioned a bit earlier, this Kindle Fire would actually equipped a six-inch screen and it should therefore be close enough to the Kindle Paperwhite Kindle or even travel. The terminal would be addressed and the most mobile users and more generally to all those who spend their lives in transport.
They almost deserve a minute of silence, moreover .
For the moment, we do not know the technical details of this new tablet but it should be relatively close to that of the first Kindle Fire.
If you do not have characteristics in mind, know that the panel is capable of displaying HD type definition. Behind, it also features a processor consists of four cores clocked at 1.5 GHz, cameras and a storage capacity of between 8GB and 16GB.
All for a price Sales … set at 99 euros.
Be careful though because the sale price includes special offers. It also means that advertisements are displayed on the device’s screen saver. And if Amazon really needs to propose a Kindle Fire at $ 50, so no doubt he even go into.
After that, it would still be good for the less fortunate of us. Because, well, everyone can not afford to blow half a minimum wage in a phone or a tablet, huh. Especially not in these days.
Via
Frédéric Pereira
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Best Liseuse Amazon Kindle ebooks Travel reconditioned – IDBOOX
bargains, refurbished products – The Reader Kindle ebooks Amazon Voyage is the flagship product, is the latest e-reader launched by the company. This upscale reading lamp is available with a price drop in the refurbished products.
Refurbished items, they are used aircraft that have been refurbished, tested, and are guaranteed to be in perfect functional and aesthetic condition.
These products have a warranty of one year. They are delivered in the original packaging.
Kindle Travel is 149 euros Wifi version instead of 169 euros and 229 euros WiFi + 3G version free instead of 250 euros .
Key features Kindle Travel is noted its light weight (180 grams), a screen with a resolution of 300 dpi, with the contrast and higher brightness of the entire Kindle family. Its exclusive micro-etched glass reinforced screen is specially designed to resist scratching.
Adaptive Front lighting Kindle is Travel extremely light and automatically adjusts the screen brightness according to ambient light. Moreover, since the human eye is gradually adapt to the dark, the Adaptive Front lighting gradually decreases the brightness of the screen depending on the adaptation of the eye to darkness.
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
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