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The Great Digitization Or The Great Betrayal? — One of the great tasks facing humanity today is digitizing the world's books and liberating the huge stores of knowledge they contain. The technology is there - scanners are now relatively fast and cheap - but the legal framework is struggling to keep up.
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Seth Godin / The Domino Project:
How the long tail cripples bonus content/multimedia — The Long Tail is Chris Anderson's brilliant coinage. If you're not up to speed on it, here you go. — Well, the long tail has hit the book business, and hard. The number of ebooks published in 2012 is going to exceed a million, easily.
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Time Warner, MSG Appear to Fail to Reach Agreement on Dispute — NEW YORK — Madison Square Garden Co.'s sports networks won't be available for Time Warner Cable Inc. subscribers in the new year, as the two sides were unable to resolve a dispute over programming costs according to a press release issued late Saturday.
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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Russian newspaper ‘being persecuted’ — A Russian newspaper editor who claims his paper is being persecuted has appealed to international press freedom watchdogs for help. — Vitaly Shapran, editor of the Gorodskoi Vestnik, the only opposition paper published in Berdsk, Novosibirsk …
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Here is the news - newspaper organisations defy the digital revolution — At the beginning of this month, Clay Shirky offered some thoughts on how we journalists might like to think about our digital future. — His essay (it seems trite to describe it as a mere posting), Institutions …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sunni leader denies NY Times byline — Iraqi parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi is denying his participation in a New York Times op-ed bearing his byline, Agence-France Press reports. — “The article published in the New York Times... has been written without the knowledge of speaker Nujaifi …
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Was 2011 the year of the great paywall? Not exactly — As the year comes to a close, the media is stuffed with pundits proclaiming that 2011 was the year of something or other. For the most part, it's easy to ignore these trend pieces: Many of them are simply chum thrown in the water …
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Cable TV Bills Have Nearly Tripled In The Past 10 Years — Do you feel like your cable bill is significantly higher than it used to be? That's probably because it is. — The average cable TV subscriber pays nearly three times as much for cable now as they did in 2001 …
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The Death of the Foreign Correspondent? Not So Much — A year ago today we wrote about one of those annual “predictions” stories. It was from Mashable's Vadim Lavrusik who had a host of predictions for the news media in 2011. This was No. 6: … Lavrusik, who is also an adjunct professor …
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Hulu Missing Out On The Facebook Sharing Gold Rush — Facebook has super-charged a handful of lucky media companies selected to test-drive the social network's frictionless sharing platform. But even though video-sharing site Hulu was on the early bird list, it failed to make a splash.
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Despite kingmaking expectations, Fox News seems neutral among GOP field — Even before the first Republican presidential candidates declared they were running, pundits and political operatives alike were debating the Fox News Channel's potential influence on the GOP race.
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Ron Paul's newsletters: Where was Texas? — The Houston Chronicle seems tired of the Ron Paul newsletter story. Richard S. Dunham, the Chronicle's Washington bureau chief, led his Dec. 27 story on the matter with these words: … Dunham adds that the “issue is old news in Texas,” where Paul has served 11 congressional terms.
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