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Book publishers have been crowing this week over having wrested control over e-book prices from Amazon. After a brief showdown with Macmillan Publishing, in which Amazon pulled all Macmillan hardcover and paperback titles from its physical-book store, the Kindle maker blinked and agreed to the publisher’s demand to raise the price of its e-books in Read More …
The Federal Trade Commission held a two-day workshop last week called How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?, which featured the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Arriana Huffington and former Washington Post executive editor Len Downie nattering on about who is to blame for the economic problems of newspapers and whether the government should do something Read More …
One of The Media Wonk’s day jobs is as an analyst and curator at GigaOm Pro, the subscription-based offshoot of the popular GigaOm web site (to which I also occasionally contribute some blatherings). On Monday, the Pro site is issuing a new report The Media Wonk wrote (subscription required) on TV Everywhere, the effort by Read More …
The Twitter- and blogosphere got a case of the vapors yesterday over a report that News Corp. plans to throw up a pay wall around Hulu. Speaking at an industry event, newly installed News. Corp. president Chase Carey said, “I think a free model is a very difficult way to capture the value of our content. Read More …
Somewhere, Tom Freston is laughing. Remember when News Corp. was supposed to have figured out this New Media thing way better than the other media empires, and Sumner Redstone was firing Freston for letting Rupert Murdoch snare MySpace? These days, not so much. New Corp., in fact, appears to be getting a bit panicky over Read More …