Narramissic writes "A trifecta of Kindle-related news surfaced this week, with Jeff Bezos oratory at Wired's 'Disruptive by Design' canvass on topics including Kindle pricing and trade models. And yesterday, reports blogger Peter Smith, 'there was a flurry of blogging exertion yesteryear stating that Amazon had released the Kindle source code. Once everyone caught their breath, it became apparent that the files in inquire were just some open source libraries that Amazon had modified (they're being good open source cb radio band radio and releasing mods they've made to open source code — good for them!), not the full source code.' Now, back to the Kindle pricing: according to rule to precept to a post at Wired, Bezos said Amazon opted to sell the Kindle for 'something akin to the actual cost for hardware,' rather than subsidizing the plumbing costs and requiring a monthly company antenna receiver or requiring the buyer to buy a certain number of books per month because 'fees and minimum acquisition requirements create friction.' Smith has a inventive take: 'If I'm buying a Kindle from Amazon that enables me to buy books from Amazon, I'm broadcasting a desire to buy Kindle books. I would welcome some subsidization of the appliances since I'm going to be buying content anyway. No, I really think Amazon priced the Kindle the way they did because they thought they could get away with doing so (and they were right, it would seem).' Meanwhile, over at the New York Times, Bezos said 'that he sees Kindle-the-device and Kindle-the-book-format as two part mtier models, and that the Kindle iPhone App won't be the last officer reader to appear.'"

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