Mediagazer: Why Apple's iBooks Numbers Are Meaningless (Brad Stone/Bits)

4:45 PM ET, June 8, 2010

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs's Praise in Morning...Then Booted From App Store Hours Later After NYT Complains — Yesterday morning, the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the hot news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first-for being among …

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

Why Did The NYT Get The Pulse News Reader Yanked From iTunes? — Is the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) trying to shut down news reader apps that rely on RSS or is it just trying to smack down one in particular? An infringement letter (included in full below) from the New York Times to Apple …

Discussion: Scripting News and MediaPost Raw

Joe Pompeo / The Wire:

Arianna Huffington Says HuffPo Is Not For Sale; AOL Exec Says Company Will Hire ‘Hundreds’ More Journalists Next Year — We're down at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for an Internet Week panel called “The Future of Media” hosted by the daily aggregation website I Want Media.

Discussion: Romenesko and Hollywood Reporter

New York Post:

Bartz eyes a mate — After 18 months atop Yahoo!, Chief Executive Carol Bartz appears to be done with cutting costs and ready to address the site's No. 1 problem: trying to reverse the 25 percent drop in time visitors spend at the Web portal that has occurred on her watch.

Discussion: Guardian

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter Online:

WHCA to Discuss Who Gets Thomas' Seat at Special Meeting Thursday — After legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas announced Monday that she was retiring, it didn't take long for journalists to start asking: Who's going to get “the seat”? — The guessing games have already begun.

Discussion: Media Matters for America, The Wrap, Washington Post, RaceWire, NY Daily News, mediabistro.com, Media Decoder, The New Republic, Gothamist and The Huffington Post

Matt Welch / Hit & Run:

Helen Thomas, and the Awkward Transfer From “Straight” Reporting to Opinioneering — Since we haven't run the video here yet, here's the ancient White House correspondent-turned-columnist Helen Thomas celebrating Jewish Heritage Month by telling Israelis (via a camera-wielding interlocutor) to go back to Poland and Germany:

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Felix Salmon, Guardian, On Media's Blog, The Hill, The Politico, DailyFinance and Romenesko

Joseph Plambeck / Media Decoder:

Sally Singer Named Editor of T Magazine — Sally Singer, the fashion news and features director at Vogue, has been named the editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. — Ms. Singer, 45, will take over on July 5, according to a note Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times, sent to staff on Tuesday.

Discussion: Romenesko, WWD, MediaPost, Gawker, mediabistro.com and The Wrap

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Apple Makes Good on Steve Jobs's Promise, Invites Other Advertisers. But What About Google's AdMob? — Last week, Steve Jobs promised that his iPhone and iPads would be open to outside ad networks. Yesterday, Apple made good on his promise, by changing the terms of its developer agreement.

Discussion: Gawker, Media Week, TechCrunch, Fortune, rbr.com and MacRumors

David Kaplan / paidContent:
Corrected: @ CM Summit: AdMob's Hamoui: Nothing New About iAd's Rich Media

Discussion: TechCrunch

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / CNN:

China's rise challenges western media — (FT) — China will overtake Japan as the world's second-largest advertising market by 2015, according to a report which predicts that advertising spending in North America will only just recover to the peak it reached in 2007 by that time.

Discussion: Kirk LaPointe's … and The Wire

Brad Stone / Bits:

Why Apple's iBooks Numbers Are Meaningless — There was e-book news on Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference: Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, said that big publishers had told him that sales of e-books for the iPad now accounted for 22 percent of all e-book sales.

Discussion: Media Analysis RSS, theBookseller.com, Allen Weiner, Kindle Review, ResourceShelf, Macworld, Fast Company, Most Recent Home Page Posts … and Engadget

Matt Creamer / Breaking Media:

Finally, A Smart Alternative to the AP — The maturation of the digital news business hasn't been kind to the Associated Press. In addition to fighting a pointless battle with Google over the distribution of AP articles in its news channel and taking potshots at aggregators …

Ryan Sholin / Publish2 Blog: Publish2 News Exchange Stories In Print: DailyFinance in the Daily Telegram

Zeke Turner / New York Times:

Robert Thomson at Cocktail Hour: Disses ‘The Times,’ Sarah Ellison — Upon arriving last night at the Waldorf Astoria for the Deadline Club's annual award ceremony, Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson swept through the wine reception in the lobby and into the dining room while the guests …

Discussion: Romenesko, New York Observer, Gawker and Talking Biz News

Nat Ives / AdAge:
Wall Street Journal Expands Again With New Weekly Section

Discussion: DailyFinance, New York Magazine, Media Buyer Planner, New York Observer, Romenesko and The Wire

Jaclyn Schiff / MediaShift:

Barnett: Advocacy, Membership Groups to Push Non-Profit News — The erosion of the traditional business model for news has led many to go down the non-profit path. The result is a slew of new non-profit news websites. The Bay Citizen, which launched at the end of May …

DigiDave:

Spot.Us on the Edges of Revenue and Expansion — The beauty of starting something from scratch is the iterative and agile process I've talked about since before Spot.Us began. In this post I'm going to discuss two new developments at Spot.Us. One is an exciting feature and revenue stream.

Steve Herrmann / The Editors:

BBC News linking policy (3) — Links to external sites are an important part of the BBC News website and I have blogged previously about how and why we are aiming to develop what we do in this area - here and here. — One theme that came up was what we should do about linking to sites which require subscription.

Discussion: BBC and paidContent:UK

Laura Oliver / Journalism.co.uk:

Independent switches blogs to WordPress in effort to raise standards — The Independent has relaunched its blogs, switching from Livejournal to WordPress as its publishing platform. — The new-look blogs on Independent.co.uk are now much closer in design to the rest of the website and more closely integrated.

Discussion: The Independent

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

David Beckham signed by Yahoo — Former England captain to be web firm's ‘global sports ambassador’, fronting ads and providing World Cup content — Yahoo has signed David Beckham as its first “global sports ambassador” to front an international ad campaign ahead of the World Cup and provide exclusive content.

Joel Gunter / news:rewired, 25 June 2010 …:

Q&A: Marc Reeves, editor, the Business Desk West Midlands — In our latest speaker Q&A we hear from Marc Reeves, editor of the Business Desk West Midlands. Marc has been a reporter, sub-editor, editor and senior manager in newspapers across the UK for more than 20 years.