OWN's Lesson For Yahoo: Big Names Don't Necessarily Equal Hit Channels
As companies like Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) make big investments into video content channels with name-brand film and television talent, they might… Read more at paidContent »
The Next Self-Publishing Frontier: E-Books In Translation
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Romance author Barbara Freethy has seen huge success making her out-of-print titles available as self-published e-books. She’s now sold 1.6… Read more at paidContent »
AP Goes To Its Board To Replace Curley; Hires McClatchy's Pruitt As CEO
The Associated Press board didn’t go far afield to hire the president and CEO who will succeed Tom Curley this summer. Gary Pruitt is as in… Read more at paidContent »
Traditional TV Use Flat In Q1 — And It'll Stay That Way, One Analyst Says
No disruption to see here folks, move along. A ratings analysis by Turner Networks and a report from Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wi… Read more at paidContent »
Firm Offers $5,000 To Nuke Patent Aimed At Hulu, Yahoo
A business that pays people to expose bogus patents announced it will offer a cash reward to the person who can show that putting an adverti… Read more at paidContent »
Netflix's Latest Original Programming Bet: Horror Series 'Hemlock Grove'
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is eager to steer its core business away from mere movie rentals to an operation that resembles, to some degree, premiu… Read more at paidContent »
Back To The Future: YouTube Launches Live Comedy Talk Show
With the comedy genre heating up in the online video world, My Damn Channel is turning to an age-old television format: the live daily comed… Read more at paidContent »
Aereo TV Will Stream For Months As Court Case Simmers
Aereo, the controversial technology that turns iPhones and iPads into portable TV sets and DVRs, will not disappear anytime soon despite eff… Read more at paidContent »
Google To Sell E-Books In France
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will reportedly start selling e-books in France. Read more at paidContent »
Google To Sell E-Books In France
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will reportedly start selling e-books in France. Read more at paidContent »
Keep Calm, Carry On And Don’t Charge For News, Johnston’s Highfield Says
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 at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
Yahoo Video Chief: How To Get $3 Billion Closer To $50 Billion
This year is only the beginning. That was the essential message Tuesday from Yahoo’s head of video and original programming, Erin McPherson,… Read more at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
The Good And Bad News From The Latest Pay TV Subscriber Figures
The good news for the traditional subscription TV industry: subscriber counts across the cable/satellite/telco television services industry… Read more at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
Facebook Broke Antitrust Law By Choking Ads Says Developer
Facebook engaged in an illegal conspiracy to monopolize the market for display ads says the maker of PageRage, a product that lets users per… Read more at paidContent »
BBC Overcomes Xbox Hurdles To Launch iPlayer With Kinect Control
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 at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
Nook May Be Expanding Internationally, But Barnes & Noble Stores Aren't
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 at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
Photographers Drag Amazon Into Pinterest Copyfight
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) will accept responsibility for copyright complaints related to popular image-sharing site Pinterest, a photographers’ lo… Read more at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
Fandango To Become Online Ticket Seller For Yahoo Movies
Fandango will be an online and mobile movie-ticket seller for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Movies, according to a new partnership between the two comp… Read more at paidContent »
PeerIndex Taking On $3 Million To Quantify Influence, Glocer Among Backers
PeerIndex, a service started by a former Reuters (NYSE: TRI) and Economist journalist to measure Twitter users’ influence in topics, is taki… Read more at paidContent »
Pew: Twitter, Facebook Aren't Moving As Much News As You Think
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 at paidContent »
FAA Reconsiders Takeoff, Landing Policy On E-Readers, Other Devices
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Welcome news from Nick Bilton: the FAA finally is revisiting the policy that keeps Kindles, iPads and the like turned off during takeoffs an… Read more at paidContent »
First Look: New iPad's A Pair Of Stylish Glasses You May Not Need
The new iPad isn’t exactly like Oakland and Gertrude Stein – there’s a there, there — but it won’t be obvious to most people. Read more at paidContent »
Samsung, Research In Motion Sued For Using Emoticons ;(
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A shell company capped off a week of patent controversy by suing two popular phone makers for including a button that lets users put a smile… Read more at paidContent »
YouTube Isn't Just Short-Attention-Span Theater Anymore
YouTube’s initial $100 million investment into original premium content channels has been amply played up as a bold, risky venture into the… Read more at paidContent »
Newspapers And Video: Slow And Steady Or Flood The Zone?
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 at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
TV Everywhere Has Come To Xbox Live, But Who Will Let You See It?
With HBO’s new video teaser for the April 1 launch of its HBO Go service on Xbox Live, the big question is: Which of the top cable, satellit… Read more at paidContent »
Californians Sue Google Over Faulty Android Apps
Two Android phone users who purchased defective products from Google’s app-store have filed a lawsuit, saying the company’s 15-minute refund… Read more at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
