Mediagazer: Amazon enters the tablet battle: It's all about the shopping (Martin Langeveld/Nieman Journalism Lab)

9:30 AM ET, September 29, 2011

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The Omnivore — First it was Earth's Largest Bookstore. Then came TVs, cameras, appliances, auto parts, music, diapers... Now, with the new Kindle Fire, Amazon's Jeff Bezos is making his boldest move yet — Jeff Bezos is channeling Steve Jobs. It's mid-September and the wiry billionaire founder …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Editors Weblog, Amazon Silk, CNET News, broadstuff, Business Insider, ZDNet, AllThingsD, Digits, GeekWire, Mashable! and AdAge, more at Techmeme »

Bloomberg:

Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, Targeting IPad — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), the world's largest online retailer, unveiled its Kindle Fire tablet computer, taking aim at Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s bestselling iPad with a device that's smaller and less than half the price.

Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Amazon enters the tablet battle: It's all about the shopping — In February 2010, before the first iPad shipments, I went out on a limb here (in a post about iPad strategies for publishers) with this prediction: — I believe the biggest transformation that will be wrought by the iPad …

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Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:

Kindle Fire, and the tricky business of chasing scoops — It's tough work, trying to predict the future. Especially when it comes to technology products. — As I tried to point out yesterday in the post about all the nutty reports about the features that the new iPhone 5 might or might not have …

Discussion: parislemon and TechCrunch

Steven Levy / Epicenter:
Playing With Fire: Amazon Launches $200 Tablet, Slashes Kindle Prices

Joe Flatley / This is my next:
Kindle Fire Newsstand announced, featuring Conde Nast magazines, DC Comics

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Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Amazon Unveils New $79 E-Ink Kindle, $99 Kindle Touch

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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Amazon's Lukewarm Fire: No Kindle Tablets Outside U.S.

Discussion: Jon Slattery, Forbes, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb and CNET News

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

News Corp.'s ‘Daily’ Trails Murdoch Reader Goal — News Corp. (NWSA)'s the Daily is averaging about 120,000 readers a week, or less than a quarter the number the company said it needs to make money, according to an advertising executive working with the iPad-only publication.

Discussion: paidContent, AllThingsD, FT Tech Hub, MacStories, Electronista, The New York Observer, New York Magazine, The Next Web, Adweek, Guardian, Future Journalism Project, Business Insider and Cision, more at Techmeme »

Raphael Satter / The Huffington Post:

News Of The World Paid Spies For Scoops During Piers Morgan's Tenure — LONDON — No one suspected the secretary. — Efficient, well-dressed and well-liked, Sue Harris was at the heart of the Sunday People, the smallest of Britain's weekly tabloids. She booked flights, reserved accommodation …

Discussion: Adweek and On Media's Blog

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Phone hacking: second NoW journalist takes News International to tribunal

Michael Arrington / UNCRUNCHED:

VentureBeat Needs To Put On Their Big Boy Pants If They Want To Fight With TechCrunch — VentureBeat leveled quite an accusation at TechCrunch this evening, claiming that they had evidence that suggested TechCrunch was trading stories for ad buys. The evidence?

Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, @venturebeat, Business Insider, @tolles, @mathewi, dylan tweney and Future of Journalism, more at Techmeme »

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ media blackout myth: Plenty of stories, none of them big — News interest in the demonstrators presently camping out in a park in the Financial District appears to have increased after a high-ranking police officer was caught on camera apparently pepper-spraying a pair of protesters Sunday.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Death and Taxes, The Atlantic Wire, ShortFormBlog and Yahoo! News

Fox News:

Mexican Journalist Beheaded for Using Social Media to Cover Crime — MEXICO CITY - The editor-in-chief of the Primera Hora newspaper in Nuevo Laredo, a border city in northern Mexico, was beheaded for using social media to report on criminals, prosecutors said.

Discussion: The New York Observer

Sabrina Ford / Reuters:

Warner Bros puts your face in Facebook Web series — (Reuters) - Warner Bros. on Thursday will unveil a Web show from “Charlie's Angels” director McG that seeks to create a new genre the studio calls a “social series” by taking pictures, music and information from a viewer's Facebook page and putting it in the video.

Liz Castro / Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis:

Apple's iBookstore opens in 25 new countries — Christian Peters just alerted me to the fact that he can choose Spain as a market for his books on the iBookstore. Before today, you could only choose US, UK, France, Germany, Australia, and Canada. — Now, you can add twenty-five new markets …

Discussion: Fast Company, The Next Web, AppleInsider and MacStories, more at Techmeme »

John Plunkett / Guardian:

George Monbiot urges journalists to register their interests — Guardian columnist takes first step by revealing his own pay from paper, plus his other income and savings — Guardian columnist George Monbiot has called on journalists to sign up to a mandatory register of interests …

Declan Fahy / CJR:

Skeptical of Science — Among other new roles, journalists becoming more critical of research — The recent coverage of the subatomic particles found to have travelled faster than the speed of light—tentative evidence that could mean a revision of Einstein's special theory of relativity …

Discussion: Climate ShiftClimate Shift

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

Independent editor backs plan for bad journalists to be ‘struck off’ — Chris Blackhurst supports proposal to licence journalists and says paper's Johann Hari should hand back Orwell prize — Chris Blackhurst, the editor of the Independent, has come out in support of the Labour party's …

Discussion: bbc.co.uk, AndyDickinson.net, Future of Journalism, http://www.Stinkyjournalism … and FleetStreetBlues

Karyn Campbell / Sparksheet:

Return of the Editor: Why Human Filters are the Future of the Web — If web 1.0 was about websites and 2.0 the power of network connectivity, whatever 3.0 looks like, better filters will play a big part. — The web has become too big and noisy. The design community has helped guide us through …

Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:

Nicolas Sarkozy ally accused of spying in latest scandal to hit re-election bid — Prosecutor close to French president in court over allegations of spying on Le Monde journalists investigating Bettencourt scandal — The threat to Nicolas Sarkozy's re-election bid from corruption scandals intensified …

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Yahoo Cofounder Jerry Yang “Has Re-assumed Command” — The leadership situation at Yahoo right now is incredibly murky, and no two sources close to the situation see it the same way. — That said, one thing is clear. — Jerry Yang - who is at once a beloved cofounder and a hated former CEO - has reinserted himself at the top.

Discussion: Gawker and Electronista