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Australian Publishers Rejects Kindle, Likely to Accept Apple Slate As Apple & Amazon Follow Opposite Revenue Sharing Models

The Sydney Morning Herald published a report back in August quoting Fairfax’s director of marketing and newspaper sales, Robert Whitehead: “Their business model represents a very unattractive partnership deal for newspaper publishers” since Amazon keeps 70% of the revenue. Today the Daily reports another news titled “Apple shops tablet around Australia” detailing that Apple has been in discussions with media companies about including their content on the device. Apple even has sent specifications of the proposed device supposedly Apple Slate to Australian media companies in an effort to sound out whether they would be interested in delivering their content to the tablet.  But the daily couldn’t confirm the details as no one would speak about the device on the record. Apple is already giving 70% of the revenue to developers of iPhone applications, and keeps only 30%. It is likely that Apple will follow the same model for contents on the Slate. While Amazon’s revenue sharing is 70%-30%, keep 70% and give 30%, Apple’s policy is just opposite. That’s why the publishers are more interested in Apple’s Tablet or Slate.

Read: Apple Tablet / MacBook Touch is Apple Slate: Not Rumor, Seems Imminent

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