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David Carr / New York Times:
Amazon Low Prices Disguise a High Cost — The Justice Department finally took aim at the monopolistic monolith that threatened to dominate the book industry. So imagine the shock when the bullet aimed at threats to competition went whizzing by Amazon — which not long ago had a 90 percent stranglehold …
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Mike Cane's xBlog, TeleRead and Digital Book World
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon's E-Book Pricing a Constant Thorn for Publishers — TULSA, Okla. — Plenty of people are upset at Amazon these days, but it took a small publishing company whose best-known volume is a toilet-training tome to give the mighty Internet store the boot. — The Educational Development …
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Disruption, Techdirt and The Week
Charlie Stross / Charlie's Diary:
What Amazon's ebook strategy means
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ZDNet, Daring Fireball, Baldur Bjarnason, Jeff Jarvis, Beyond Search and Forbes
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
George Zimmerman Trial Could Start a News Swarm — The Orlando Sentinel's Twitter account for the Trayvon Martin case is up and running. So, too, is its topics page, with links to all the newspaper's articles about Mr. Martin and the man who shot and killed him, George Zimmerman …
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mediabistro.com, msnbc.com, TVNewser, Free Press, Media Decoder, The Huffington Post and Inside Cable News
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Syracuse announces Mirror Awards finalists — Sycracuse's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has made its picks for the best coverage of media in 2011. The finalists' work appeared in major publications like The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Washington Post …
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Mirror Awards 2012 and FishbowlNY
Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Scarborough Evening News to go weekly in latest round of Johnston Press cuts — Scarborough, Northampton, Peterborough and Halifax are among the titles switching to weekly in ‘platform-neutral’ publishing move — The NUJ say they will defend members at JP titles ‘in every way we can’
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Scarborough Evening News, Press Gazette, Jon Slattery, Press Gazette and Guardian
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
‘GMA’ Appears To Nudge ‘Today’ From Top Spot After 16 Years — Update, 12:55 p.m.: ABC's “Good Morning America” appears to have prevailed over NBC's “Today” show for the first week in over 16 years. — Preliminary Nielsen ratings, paid for by both networks and provided by ABC on Monday …
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TVNewser, @brianstelter, The Huffington Post, Chickaboomer, Mediaite and TVLine
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Cuomo Aide Slammed Reporter In Dossier — A top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo assembled a 35-page dossier on the work of an Albany political reporter considered hostile to his administration, highlighting any shred of criticism in a document that reflects the intense sensitivity …
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Capital New York and New York Times
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Chartbeat raises $9.5M to give publishers better radar — Launched three years ago as a way of giving publishers and media companies better real-time analytics related to their content, Chartbeat announced Monday that it has closed a new round of Series B financing worth $9.5 million …
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Betabeat and PandoDaily
Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney: Fox News Has Been Good To Me — During a private campaign event on Sunday in Palm Beach, Fla., GOP candidate Mitt Romney had some rather favorable words to say about Fox News. — Speaking of the media coverage his campaign has received, Romney singled out CNN host Wolf Blitzer …
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Mediaite, msnbc.com, Slate, Real-Time Advice, TVNewser, Politico and Wall Street Journal
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox News Mole Tells Howard Kurtz He Wanted To Leave But Got ‘Blackballed’ At Other Networks — Joe Muto, the “Fox News Mole,” sat down for an appearance with Howard Kurtz that aired on CNN's Reliable Sources today to recount his tales of working at Fox and explain why he went rogue.
Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:
1.5 million pages of ancient texts to be made accessible online — This week the University of Oxford and the Vatican announced a plan to collaborate in digitizing 1.5 million pages of rare and ancient texts, most dating from the 16th century or earlier. The project is expected to span …
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