Random House is now the only big six publisher to allow unrestricted access to all of its e-books in libraries — and it said yesterday it w… Read more »
BT (NYSE: BT) signed up 39,000 customers to its Vision hybrid Freeview/IPTV service between September and December, taking it to 679,000.
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In what is becoming a ritual akin to Superbowl Week itself, federal prosecutors today announced the seizure of 16 websites that offered live… Read more »
News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) has appointed Lex Fenwick as the CEO of Dow Jones & Company, filling the position left open following Les Hinton’s re… Read more »
Late last year, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) relaunched its tech blog to add more reporters and more video — in hopes of pulling in more… Read more »
In a new business-oriented social media site, Reuters (NYSE: TRI) aims to index “the most talked-about news, companies and influencers acros… Read more »
Higher online circulation was a small bright spot in an otherwise gloomy earnings report for the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), which i… Read more »
The newest statistics from the Association of American Publishers show that e-book growth slowed somewhat in November, though it’s still hig… Read more »
The rush of content announcements from video companies in recent days, from players like YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Hulu, has caused a number… Read more »
OK, I’ve been talking with hundreds of geeks from around the world this year at three conferences, CES, DLD, and World Economic Forum. I’m s… Read more »
So it’s redundancy time once again. First, at the two Telegraph titles and now at the Mirror trio. Read more »
Book marketing firm Verso Advertising recently found that over half of book buyers say they are “not at all likely” to purchase an e-reader… Read more »
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s ano… Read more »
Zite has cut a deal with Intel (NSDQ: INTC) to have the chip giant sponsor the technology section of its mobile news reading app, only the s… Read more »
About half an hour before Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) announced Q4 earnings this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) released a new statement sayi… Read more »
The Village Voice is giving up on a scheme to force rivals to pay for permission to use the phrase “best of.” Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) disappointed investors by reporting Q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but… Read more »
There are many exciting things happening in the online video industry, but to my mind, none is more noteworthy than the radical transformati… Read more »
E-reader usage is growing beyond a group of early adopters, but new stats suggest that consumers are also increasingly resistant to buying a… Read more »
BSkyB’s financials are still improving, but the company is now flaunting a range of new internet upgrades to try containing subscriber growt… Read more »
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is acting to head off rising City concerns about the threat from over-the-top connected TV services, by announcing it will… Read more »
NASCAR is taking back the management of its online and mobile operations from broadcast partner Turner Sports following a steep slide in TV… Read more »
Can SnagFilms become the Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) of the independent film sector?
Washington, DC-based SnagFilms, which offers access to a libr… Read more »
Demand Media is known for churning lots of content through its sites, but today it’s notable for another churn, of the executive kind: three… Read more »
What do To Kill A Mockingbird, A Wrinkle in Time and Little House on the Prairie series have in common, besides being beloved? None of them… Read more »
Digital publisher and multimedia company Open Road is partnering with investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica on multiple e-books. Read more »
Two separate reports published this weekend suggest that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is close to a partnership with UK bookstore chain Waters… Read more »
Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo’s house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO’s tenure,… Read more »
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. posted lower than expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 after incurring special charges related to workfo… Read more »
The UK’s leading pay-TV provider BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is taking a significant step to improve its PVR box’s new IP on-demand TV service by addi… Read more »
I’ll bet The Times sub-editors raised some eyebrows when their business writer Emily Ford filed her piece, Why I’m not paying any more, for… Read more »
The championship of the online newspaper world changed hands the other day.
The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) (as measured by comScore (NSDQ:… Read more »
A new lawsuit claims a former Republican presidential candidate used a photo without permission for the cover of his biography, This is Herm… Read more »
Book-centered social networking site Goodreads, which allows users to keep records of the books they read and share the information with oth… Read more »
CNN has become a prime-time ratings afterthought in the cable news business it started three decades ago, as Fox (NSDQ: NWS) News continues… Read more »
Audiobooks.com, a cloud-based streaming audio service for iOS and Android, launches this week as a would-be competitor to the Amazon (NSDQ:… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) expects overseas losses to double in just three months, as it spends more and more on vital local video content and mar… Read more »
The owner of UK internet TV service FetchTV, IP Vision, has gone in to administration after encountering financial difficulties. Read more »
A set of quarterly results today from AT&T (NYSE: T) that underscored some of the aftershocks the carrier is feeling in the wake of its fail… Read more »
Bleacher Report is using part of the $22 million cash infusion it received last summer to hire twenty bona fide writers. The move will likel… Read more »
