John Murrell

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Amazon to Deliver Daily Deals Via Kindle Screen Saver

Owners of Amazon’s advertising-subsidized Kindle with Special Offers models will soon be getting even more special offers when the company starts sending AmazonLocal daily deals to the e-reader’s screen saver during idle moments. The offers will begin in New York City and spread from there (and with any luck, the targeting will improve).


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer