Aereo TV Will Stream For Months As Court Case Simmers
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Aereo, the controversial technology that turns iPhones and iPads into portable TV sets and DVRs, will not disappear anytime soon despite eff… Read more »
Google To Sell E-Books In France
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will reportedly start selling e-books in France. Read more »
Keep Calm, Carry On And Don’t Charge For News, Johnston’s Highfield Says
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Johnston Press CEO Ashley Highfield says the news business shouldn’t panic, as he aims to make a quarter of its revenue from digital, turn i… Read more »
BSkyB's Internet TV Service Will Have A New Brand – 'Now TV'
UK pay TV platform leader BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) will take a bold step for its upcoming satellite-less, over-the-internet TV packages by launchin… Read more »
Market For Legal News Heats Up: LexisNexis Buys Law360
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In a sign that legal news is gaining strategic clout, LexisNexis announced it is buying subscription service Law360 for an undisclosed sum. Read more »
Audit Bureau Of Circulations Endorses Meaningful Metrics On Digital Mags
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The Audit Bureau of Circulations is hoping to make its reporting more relevant to an e-reading age with a new set of standards requiring muc… Read more »
The Good And Bad News From The Latest Pay TV Subscriber Figures
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The good news for the traditional subscription TV industry: subscriber counts across the cable/satellite/telco television services industry… Read more »
Social Magazine Apps Grapple With Advertising
Now that Forbes has 460,000 subscribers on Flipboard and 900,000 across properties on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Currents, the brand is close to ad… Read more »
Video: The Future Of The Remote Control In The Age Of Internet TV
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Wand, joypad, keyboard, trackpad, voice, mobile, wave, tablet or just plain ‘ol candybar? Which of these is the best way to navigate televis… Read more »
BBC Overcomes Xbox Hurdles To Launch iPlayer With Kinect Control
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The BBC has overcome Microsoft’s wish for iPlayer to be bundled with its paid Xbox Live Gold subscriptions.
The catch-up TV service on Tues… Read more »
Top Kindle Fire Activity: Reading E-Books, Says Citi
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Analysts don’t know how many Kindle Fires have been sold any more than you do. Sometimes, though, they do cool stuff like an analysis (PDF)… Read more »
Why The Wall Street Journal Isn't Adding Digital To Its Sunday Edition
Common wisdom says there’s no future in print newspapers and that the rest of the country is fed up with Wall Street. But both propositions… Read more »
Nielsen, GroupM To Develop New Ratings Tool
As more people watch TV content on something other than TV, ad firms and their clients are eager for a tool that lets them analyze the succe… Read more »
Rick Santorum Opposes Birth Control, 'New Yorker' Rejections
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Rick Santorum does not like New York City, but you know what really gets him mad? When someone submits an article to the New Yorker and does… Read more »
Nook May Be Expanding Internationally, But Barnes & Noble Stores Aren't
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At a Nook Developers Workshop in London today, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) said it won’t be opening stores outside the U.S., but did not offe… Read more »
All3Media Bypassing Broadcasters, Aggregators On Connected TV Screens
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The connected TV revolution promises new distribution opportunities to content owners.
One, super-indie TV producer All3Media, is taking th… Read more »
Hearst Continues Push Into E-Singles With 'Seventeen' And Sex
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As more publishers experiment with e-singles, Hearst is unique in articulating a specific business strategy for the format: E-singles are “a… Read more »
Chinese Writers' Apple Book Piracy Claims Grow Louder
Twenty-two Chinese authors now plan to sue Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for 50 million yuan ($7.9 million), claiming 95 of their books were published… Read more »
Pew: Twitter, Facebook Aren't Moving As Much News As You Think
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We’ve heard that social media is a great source of traffic for news outlets so often that it’s close to textbook. Yes, Facebook, Twitter an… Read more »
Newspapers And Video: Slow And Steady Or Flood The Zone?
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The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) has embraced video with gusto. The venerable paper is pumping out hours of live news clips and splashing… Read more »
Mike Lang Leaving As Miramax CEO
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Mike Lang has resigned as CEO of Miramax effective immediately, according to the film company. Lang, a former News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) exec i… Read more »
Harry Potter E-Books Available For Reserve At NY Public Library Now
The Harry Potter e-books, which will be released for the first time by Pottermore in April (after months of delays), are now appearing in th… Read more »
Ian Fleming Estate Reverses Course, Gives Up James Bond E-Book Rights
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Ian Fleming Publications attracted attention when, in 2010, it announced it would publish the James Bond e-books directly instead of selling… Read more »
Most U.S. College Students Now Prefer Digital Reading
The majority of U.S. college students now prefer digital formats whether they’re reading textbooks or “fun” books, according to a new survey… Read more »
Industry Moves: CNBC; NYT; MSLO; Starz Entertainment; m6d
– CNBC: Kevin Krim is CNBC’s new digital general manager, reporting to Mark Hoffman, president of CNBC (NSDQ: CMCSA). Krim comes from Bloom… Read more »
As Amazon and IPG's Fight Continues, One Client's Sales Fall By 40%
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It’s been a few weeks since Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) removed the Kindle versions of 5,000 titles from distributor Independent Publishers Group, b… Read more »
Social TV's Zeebox Aims At U.S. Under Time Warner's Forbes
Second-screen social TV startup Zeebox has poached Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) Media SVP Jason Forbes to head its upcoming competition wit… Read more »
More Papers Put Faith In Daily Deals And Tablet Payments As Profit Shrinks
Some low-hanging fruit in newspapers’ shrivelling orchard – Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) says it is investing in a Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) copycat… Read more »
Condé Nast Will Give Advertisers More Metrics On Tablet Editions
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Months after it began testing a program that provided select advertisers with information about the readers of tablet editions, Condé Nast… Read more »
Marvel Comics Expands Digital Strategy With Tie-Ins And Bundling
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Marvel (NYSE: DIS) Comics is beefing up its digital presence with a new digital-only line and print-digital bundles. Read more »
Cisco Wants To Buy News Corp's TV Software Maker NDS For $5 Billion
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Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) says it wants to buy News Corp.’s TV set-top box software maker NDS Group for $5 billion to improve its own offering and… Read more »
Slovenia's Big Pay 'Wall' Has Made €26,000
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Piano Media, the online news payment system which first launched in Slovakia last year, says it made €26,000 ($33961.2/£21616.4) in its f… Read more »
Almost All Pay-TV Subscribers Now Have Access To HBO Go
HBO’s luck may have run out Wednesday on its big Dustin Hoffman-led horse-racing drama, but it remains full speed ahead for the pay cable ne… Read more »
What The CW's About-Face On Streaming Says About Piracy, Authentication
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While its relevance in the realm of traditional linear television is more questionable than ever, the CW’s youthful, digitally literate core… Read more »
Live From New York, It's Aereo TV (For Now…)
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Aereo, a bold new service that brings broadcast TV and DVR to your iPad and iPhone, started its engines in New York City today — and the re… Read more »
Only Content Industries Can Create Content People Want, Says MPAA's Attaway
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“Our industries do something that no one else can do,” the Motion Picture Association of America’s Fritz Attaway said at the Association of… Read more »
News Licensing Outfit NewsRight Bags First Client
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News companies have notched a victory in their long running push to charge digital aggregators for curating their content. On Wednesday, lic… Read more »
If You Liked '50 Shades Of Grey,' You'll Love 'Shameful Thrills'
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Erotic e-books are getting a lot of attention lately, particularly following a seven-figure deal for the Twilight-inspired trilogy 50 Shades… Read more »
Britannica Ends Printing, Now Will Face Wikipedia On Price, Quality
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At a conference last week, an Encyclopaedia Brittanica executive rose from the floor to challenge keynoter Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia.
“I don… Read more »
How Netflix's Hastings Could Get BSkyB Off An Anti-Trust Charge
The UK inquiry in to whether Sky Movies’ exclusive first-run subscription VOD deals with six major Hollywood major studios is anti-competiti… Read more »
