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Kunz lists several ways in which Twitter could potentially try to make money, and then systematically takes apart each and everyone of these.

Twitter could ask users to pay ? but once a free service has already been established, it's hard to get them to pony up.

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» Summer Reading: Why More People Are Listening to Books

So what did you read this summer? Chances are, more and more of you listened instead. According to the American Association of Publishers, audio book sales grew by 20 percent last year. The largest online seller of audiobooks is Audible, which was acquired by Amazon earlier this year for $300 mi...

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