Fortune's 'Inside Apple' article lands on Kindle Top 10 Bestseller list

Seriously? The writer doesn't see individual journalistic articles with exclusive information selling for digital devices? Lots of other 'apples' in the news garden, watch your own space I guess :)

The article's author writes, "Even so, I never thought such information would land on Amazon's Kindle Bestseller list"

Lots of books about Apple/Steve Jobs have made many best sellers's lists, including Amazon's, over the years. This article appearing there is not unusual.

"No one is going to start paying per-article for news, no matter what the length of the article." It remains to be seen but as you said yourself, there was "news" in this article and people paid for it. I'd be willing a lot of people were like me - they didn't want to go through whatever hassle they perceived in getting the hard copy of the magazine and this provided an easy way to get the information.

I also agree with sami and david that Fortune blew their opportunity here by making the article not even worth the 99 cents they charged. I certainly won't buy another Fortune article based on this concept.

It likely only made it to the best seller list because John Gruber linked to it. In just one afternoon of linking to that article, John made $91 in affiliate-link kickbacks. From a 99¢ item, yeah, he's definitely why it's on the bestseller list.

I'm sure nobody wants to pay for stuff they can get for free on line. I mean, take music for instance. The idea that Apple can charge 99 cents in the iTunes music store for . . . .

Um . . . .

Your lucky 99c readers should note that this price becomes $2.99 outside the US.

I paid the $.99. Not really worth it because all the synopsis had all the info.

This is the first and last time I'm buying a single article like that. I loved the article "Inside Apple" but no way it's worth €1 for a less than 10min read. They shouldn't have priced the article at all. Stephen Fry did a wonderful series which was free. I would've paid €1 for that but this? Totally dissapointed. Most of the article was already posted all over the internet and the full article only had a few extra paragraphs!

I wonder if Steve Ballmer had $0.99 spare after last week's Skype transaction to buy the article.

I think there might be a nice revenu stream from 0.99 articles on Kindle, assuming you can't just scrap it easily from the web.

Long form articles (ones longer than the inside apple one) would be a great addition to the Kindle library.

For example The Economist often does special reports, quarterly reports, and briefings that would be wonderful have to in a nice convient to read formate. Sure you could subscribe to the economist, but i bet there are tons of people who dont but would still buy the Technology Quarterly for a couple bucks.