Mediagazer: Amazon to Drop Free Books from Kindle Bestseller List (Rachel Deahl/Publishers Weekly)

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Magazines to Sell Subscriptions Within Facebook's News Feed — Facebook Users Can Stay in News Feed While Buying Print Subs and Reading Whole Articles — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The magazine business may soon have a way to do more with Facebook than engage fans and promote its brands.

Discussion: Mashable!, Romenesko, paidContent, the Econsultancy blog and FishbowlNY

Sarah Kunst / New York | Guest of a Guest:

Neel Shah Claims He Can't Even Get In To Avenue — Have you seen Neel Shah's new taxi TV commercial for Bing, in which he is rejected from Avenue? The casting is random-and a harbinger of more internet “celebrities” making the jump to tv.- — The death of old media has been greatly exaggerated it seems …

Discussion: nbcuniversal.presscentre.com, FishbowlNY, The Wire, Runnin' Scared and WebNewser

Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:

John Carney Joins CNBC: “Corporate Environments Don't Frighten Me” — Former Business Insider managing editor John Carney is going corporate - he joins NBCU today as senior editor at CNBC.com, to appear regularly on-air. — Guest Of A Guest broke the news, and the full release is after the jump.

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

At the WSJ, A Question of Trust — The real issue in the Kagan softball dustup: The paper has lost credibility in the Murdoch era … Simpson is the respected former Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, and that quote is from former WSJer Sarah Ellison's new book War at The Wall Street Journal …

Discussion: Mediaite, Romenesko, The Politico, Big Think and WMC Blog

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Location, location, etc: What does the WSJ's Foursquare check-in say about the future of location in news? — It was the Foursquare check-in heard 'round the world. Or, at least, 'round the future-of-news Twitterverse. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal checked in to the platform's Times Square venue with some breaking news:

Discussion: Lost Remote and Mobile Media

Media Decoder:

Saban Reacquires ‘Power Rangers,’ Moves Show to Nickelodeon — The media investor Haim Saban said Wednesday that he had bought back the rights to his biggest franchise, “Power Rangers,” from The Walt Disney Company, and had licensed the show to Nickelodeon, the children's cable channel owned by Viacom.

Discussion: Associated Press, Variety and Company Town

Rachel Deahl / Publishers Weekly:

Amazon to Drop Free Books from Kindle Bestseller List — For some in publishing it may be a curiosity, for others a point of contention—Amazon's practice of including free downloads in its list of most popular Kindle titles. It will soon no longer be an issue.

Discussion: TeleRead, Kindle Review, eBookNewser and GalleyCat

Vadim Lavrusik:

The missing link in journalism curricula: Community engagement — Next Tuesday, I will graduate with a master's of science degree in digital media from the prestigious Columbia University Journalism School. As I graduate, I have gained skills in reporting, video production, audio, editing …

Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:

Inside Lorne Michaels' Bubble — Hungry Beast Giving Beast Women in the World — Blogs and Stories — The Saturday Night Live creator talks to The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove about his action flick MacGruber, Conan's departure from NBC, Comcast's takeover of the network—and SNL's Betty White episode.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Andrew Rice / New York Times:

Putting a Price on Words — Last year, Sam Apple got the idea into his head that what the world needed was a new kind of newspaper. This was, to put it mildly, at odds with the consensus of the marketplace. At the time, several large media companies were in bankruptcy …

Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:

There's a Dirty UNIX Joke in the New York Times' Facebook Backlash Story (Update) — This morning's New York Times features a story on a group of NYU undergraduates working on a would-be Facebook killer called Diaspora*, the software for which “will let users set up their own personal servers …

Discussion: MediaPost, Gawker, MediaPost, iMedia Connection Blog, Gothamist, Scripting News, Runnin' Scared, Gizmodo, the nytpicker, New York Times and Epicenter

Al Bawaba:

Arab Media Forum Discussion Analyzes the ‘Al Jazeera Effect’ at AMF 2010 — Whenever Al Jazeera is accessible to an audience, they tend to find some solidarity with it, commented Adel Iskandar, Media and Communication Lecturer at Georgetown University, citing examples of a Vermont-based cable operator …

Discussion: Gulf News, Salon, zawya.com, AMEinfo.com, thenational.ae, Khaleej Times and english.globalarabnetwork.com

Dawn Chmielewski / Company Town:

ESPN lands new 3-D channel on Comcast cable systems — The nation's largest cable operator, Comcast Corp., has jumped on the 3-D bandwagon. — Comcast is expected to announce Wednesday that it will offer ESPN 3D when it launches June 11 with coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Discussion: Light Reading, Multichannel, Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost, The Awl and Variety

Wendy Davis / MediaPost:

Judge Upholds Ban On FlyOnTheWall's Publishing Financial ‘Hot News’ — A federal judge has rejected Theflyonthewall.com's request to resume publishing banks' stock recommendations early in the morning. U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote in New York ruled that the site had not shown …

Guardian:

Sunday Times to cut Scottish staff — News International paper's Scottish staff expected to be reduced by at least three quarters — The Sunday Times has announced swingeing cuts to its Scottish operation, with fears that at least three-quarters of the editorial staff will be laid off.

Discussion: milne media

Lois Beckett / The Snitch:

Behind the Scenes at 48 Hour Magazine — Sunday, 7:07 a.m. Alexis Madrigal and Mat Honan. Five hours left. — This weekend, a group of San Francisco media friends got together and produced a glossy print magazine, start to finish, in just about 48 hours.

Discussion: 48 Hour Magazine, Snarkmarket, Center for Sustainable … and all the cool kids

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

TV Quick faces closure — H Bauer begins consultation with staff about closing 19-year-old listings weekly, down 26% in last round of ABCs — Publisher H Bauer looks set to close TV Quick, 19 years after the weekly title launched to take advantage of deregulation of the UK TV listings market.

Discussion: Press Gazette

Los Angeles Times:

With TV Everywhere, pay-TV industry seeks to fend off an Apple invasion — Fearful that they'll suffer the same fate as the music business, television firms are racing to come up with services such as TV Everywhere, which would let paying customers view shows on any device.

Discussion: MediaPost, Company Town and NewTeeVee

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

RRE Ventures, Ron Conway, And Founder Collective Bet $8 Million On BuzzFeed — Making buzz happen online is an elusive enterprise, but BuzzFeed is making a business around it. The New York City startup just raised an $8 million series B financing, led by RRE Ventures.

Discussion: paidContent and VentureBeat

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Media Landscape Gets a Radical Redesign — The New York media map is being redrawn. — Newsweek magazine is one example of the city's media migrations. Even before Washington Post Co. disclosed last week that it was putting Newsweek up for sale, the magazine had moved its Manhattan base …

Discussion: Romenesko

Jeff Whatcott / Brightcove Blog:

Solving the Online Video Monetization Puzzle — The image of a jigsaw puzzle kept coming to mind as I watched last week's Brightcove Video Monetization Summit. The good news is that the picture is starting to take shape. We recently published some new research findings with TubeMogul showing …

Discussion: NewTeeVee, Online Video News, VideoNuze and PR Newswire

Discussion: USA Today