You can now pay for quota increases on AppEngine. They also REDUCED the amount of free quota for free. They say they have been under-reporting resource usage as they were not counting indexes as "storage". This has been fixed and the new console report the total storage used.

* $0.10 per CPU core hour. This covers the actual CPU time an application uses to process a given request, as well as the CPU used for any Datastore usage.
* $0.10 per GB bandwidth incoming, $0.12 per GB bandwidth outgoing. This covers traffic directly to/from users, traffic between the app and any external servers accessed using the URLFetch API, and data sent via the Email API.
* $0.15 per GB of data stored by the application per month.
* $0.0001 per email recipient for emails sent by the application

Its interesting to me that Adobe is able to monetize PDF creation, when there are good free alternatives. Acrobat itself is too expensive ($300). I now see they are offering other price points for an online service for PDF creation:

- Free 5 trial (5 documents)
- $10/month
- $100/year

Quoted: Create Adobe PDF Online is the easy way to create professional-looking PDF documents. Offered by Adobe Systems, the inventors of the PDF file format.

I'm looking forward to reading Sarah's book on Web 2.0 companies. Strangely, the Kindle version is MORE EXPENSIVE than the hardback? How can that be?

Hardback: $17
Kindle: $20

If the book were a "best seller" - it would sell for $10 on Kindle. But I don't see how Amazon justifies selling the Kindle version for more than the hardback price.

Sarah is rumored to be planning a book tour - hopefully coming to Seattle as well.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0: Sarah Lacy: Books