YouTube’s Missing Monetization Makes Its Internet TV Prospects Patchy
YouTube’s fortunes in the emerging internet TV space may be hampered because it cannot yet help partners monetize their content on the new p… Read more »
Why The Diller-Backed Aereo Will Need Some Fancy Lawyers
Broadcasters have a history of squashing disruptive technologies in court — and the new cord-cutting service Aereo could well be their next… Read more »
When Is The Social Curation Bubble Going To Burst?
You just can’t move for social curation services right now. The biggest noise might be coming from Pinterest, which is growing like a weed — but whether it’s the new-look Delicious, Switzerland’s Paperli, shopping curation site Svpply, image service Mlkshk or another site, the fact is that almost everybody seems to want to help you save and sort and share the things you find on the web right now. Read more »
Fair Use Or Free Riding? The AP’s New Attack On News Scraping
The Associated Press is becoming more aggressive in trying to rein in the information the news service scatters around the world. After help… Read more »
Meltwater, UK Newspapers Each Get Partial Victory In Web Fees Ruling
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In its ruling setting copying fees for news monitor clients who receive newspaper websites’ online story clippings, the UK’s Copyright Tribu… Read more »
Free Interactive E-Book Publishing Platform — From Inkling, Not Apple
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Startup iPad publisher Inkling is launching a free, cloud-based, interactive e-book publishing platform, Inkling Habitat. That may sounds a… Read more »
PO’d Parents Petition Against Cut To Amazon ‘Mom’ Benefits
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is cutting back “Amazon Mom,” a Prime-like program that gives parents and caregivers big discounts on baby supplies and… Read more »
Amazon Kindle To Japan And Brazil This Year?
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Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week. Read more »
HuffPo Blog Formerly Known As Parentlode Will Now Be Called ‘Parentry’
It’s always tough to come up with a unique name for your offspring, but a little lawsuit sure can get the creative juices flowing. And so st… Read more »
Newspaper Ethics Scandal Has Not Yet Hurt Sun Sales
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While the UK’s media ethics furore ended up closing the News Of The World last year, how did News Corp.’s next-best-selling UK newspaper far… Read more »
The Most Important Thing About Bridesmaids’ $40 Million In VOD Revenues
Universal Pictures put a lot of palms on foreheads this week when it announced that its summer comedy hit Bridesmaids has taken in $40 milli… Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Plays A Part In Penguin’s Library Decision
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Since Penguin announced yesterday that it is ending its partnership with OverDrive and will no longer provide e-books or digital audiobooks… Read more »
Digital Downloads Jumped 26% In 2011, Led By E-Books
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Users are downloading more e-books, music, TV shows and movies than ever: Digital content and subscriptions were the fastest-growing retail… Read more »
Zeebox Searches For Money In TV’s Social Second Screen
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After quickly gaining a warm reception and a rapid post-launch investment from BSkyB, the social TV app startup co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer… Read more »
Indie Booksellers All Yanking Amazon Titles? Not Exactly
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It would be dramatic to say that independent booksellers nationwide are boycotting Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles en masse — and hey… Read more »
Google Books Lawsuit Lurches Forward
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The fate of Google’s massive book scanning project has been up in the air since a legal settlement collapsed last year. New court filings th… Read more »
Where Does Arianna Fit Into AOL’s New Patch Plans?
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) has hired a new Chief Content Officer in its latest attempt to reboot Patch, the network of hundreds of sites that offer “hy… Read more »
Beloved Librarian Who Signed With Amazon: ‘The Vehemence Surprised Me’
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Nancy Pearl, the famous librarian (and action figure!) who recently partnered with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to republish a handful of out-of-prin… Read more »
Virgin Media Slow To Build A Revolution On TiVo
Virgin Media thinks its new-ish TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) set top box is a game changer. But, whilst the new box – with a big PVR drive, capability… Read more »
News Corp: Earnings Surge But Scandal Bill Hits $104 Million
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News Corp surpassed analyst expectations in quarterly earnings announced today, but the numbers reflected two wildly divergent trends. Read more »
YouTube Video Extravaganza Continues With Motor Trend Channel
In Hollywood, $100 million will buy you about half of a Jerry Bruckheimer action movie. But YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is spreading that sum out t… Read more »
Windows Work? ‘Harry Potter’ DVD Sales help Drive Time Warner’s Q4 Profits
Delaying DVD and Blu-ray rental releases to outlets including Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Redbox made the magic of Harry Potter even more poten… Read more »
Jersey Shore, Dora, iCarly To Amazon Prime Instant In Viacom Deal
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is expanding its Prime Instant Video library in a deal with Viacom (NYSE: VIA), bringing the total number of streaming v… Read more »
Never Mind The Numbers: Mail Online And New York Times Are Chalk And Cheese
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Mail Online may have overtaken The New York Times’ website for global audience, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) – but, in reality, the tw… Read more »
Virgin Media Profits As On-Demand Viewing Grows
UK pay-TV and broadband telco Virgin Media clocked its first annual profit in 2011, as its TV set top boxes continued to be an engine of vid… Read more »
Mail Online Income Quickening After U.S. Expansion
Mail Online’s annual revenue growth rate has accelerated to a high of 70 percent following its big push in to the U.S., its publisher DMGT r… Read more »
Milestone: Digital Gains Offset Magazines’ Decline At Future
Magazine and web publisher Future has hit a key milestone in the media industry’s great transition – UK digital revenues made up for print r… Read more »
Exclusive Video: Mirror.co.uk Relaunches Amid Group Cuts
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As it lays off another 75 staff and faces questions over CEO Sly Bailey’s salary, Trinity Mirror’s Mirror Group Newspapers is relaunching it… Read more »
McClatchy Beats Earnings Forecasts, Touts Digital Investments
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McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) Company’s fourth quarter operating earnings beat analysts’ predictions, while the newspaper chain also reported an ove… Read more »
Another Tech Blogger Launches An E-Book Venture
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Does three make a trend? In recent months, both former Gawker editor Emily Gould and GigaOm’s Michael Wolf launched their own e-book venture… Read more »
Uneven E-book Growth Sees Lagardere Book Sales Slim
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Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, t… Read more »
Will Netflix Kill Ratings For Pay Cable?
The launch of Netflix’s first original series positions the company right where it wants to be – competing against pay cable companies lik… Read more »
An Amazon Store In Seattle?
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A new report suggests that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is opening a small, Kindle-focused retail store in Seattle to test whether the concept could… Read more »
Kindle Touch Now Shipping Abroad–But Not To UK/Germany/Spain/France/Italy
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The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have t… Read more »
Another Chain Says It Won’t Carry Amazon Books, But Does It Matter?
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Canadian bookselling chain Indigo Books & Music is joining Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Books-A-Million in their refusal to carry any Amaz… Read more »
Academics Revolt Against Elsevier’s Journal Pricing
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Academics are staging a mini-revolt against science and medical journal publisher Elsevier’s terms, and analysts fear the movement could hit… Read more »
Ebook Sales Are Being Driven By Downmarket Genre Fiction
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Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other th… Read more »
Apple Clarifies: We Don’t Own The Content You Put Into iBooks Author
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When Apple first released its free iBooks Author software, some were upset about its end-user licensing agreement, which states that works c… Read more »
The New York Times’ About.com: From All-Star To Albatross
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About.com is in free fall. The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) revealed yesterday that its network of information sites suffered a 67% drop in pr… Read more »
Books-A-Million Won’t Carry Amazon Titles, Either
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Books-A-Million — the nation’s second largest bookstore chain after Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) — announced today that, like B&N, it will n… Read more »
