Mediagazer: eBook Revenues Top Hardcover (Jason Boog/GalleyCat)

8:25 PM ET, June 16, 2012

Top News:

Who jumped first from the newspaper sinking ship? — When did the ripe, bulbous, and gibbous newspaper bubble pop? — It was probably in the 1990s, when the business better resembled a cruising blimp than it did the dotcoms like Pets.com, Boo.com, and TheGlobe.com, which all went kerblewy around the turn of the century.

Discussion: TeleRead

Jason Boog / GalleyCat:

eBook Revenues Top Hardcover — Net sales revenue from eBooks have surpassed hardcover books in the first quarter of 2012. — According to the March Association of American Publishers (AAP) net sales revenue report (collecting data from 1,189 publishers), adult eBook sales were $282.3 million …

Discussion: TeleRead, TechCrunch, AppNewser and mediabistro.com

Howard Finberg / Poynter:

Journalism education cannot teach its way to the future — As we think about the changes whipping through the media industry, there is a nearby storm about to strike journalism education. — The future of journalism education will be a very different and difficult future, a future that is full of innovation and creative disruption.

Discussion: The Changing Newsroom and @jayrosen_nyu

Steve Outing:

In defense of fewer print editions — So much has been written about the New Orleans Times-Picayune cutting back to three days a week for print publication (and laying off a bunch of employees in the “digital-first” transition) that I hesitated adding to the word onslaught.

Discussion: Gambit New Orleans News … and GigaOM

Steve Myers / Poynter:

What the future of news looks like in Alabama after Advance cuts staff by 400 — To people who've never been to Alabama, it's a single place, synonymous with the Deep South and whatever that means to you. — Those who live in Alabama know it's a long way — physically, mentally and culturally …

Thanks:@myersnews

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple Gives Podcasts a Gentle Push Out of iTunes — Podcasts were supposed to be a big deal several years ago, but that boom never happened. Now there's at least anecdotal evidence that the format is actually picking up steam, as creators, listeners and advertisers warm to the format.

Discussion: PC Magazine, Softpedia News, MacRumors, The Verge, VentureBeat, Podcasting News, MacStories, WebProNews, Macgasm, @tcarmody, Engadget, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, TUAW and App Advice

Adam L. Penenberg / Fast Company:

Laurel Touby's Mediabistro Mediapivot — How a freelance writer turned organizing parties into a business she went on to sell for $23 million. The 6th in our Pivot series. — Most journalists know Mediabistro as a freelancer's resource, a place to scour job boards or enroll in classes …

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Warren Buffett's Buffalo News to erect paywall — “Trusted, credible and enterprising news gathering by 140 professional journalists doesn't come cheap, nor should it,” Buffalo News Editor Margaret Sullivan writes in announcing a digital subscription plan coming this fall.

Discussion: Buffalo News

Adam Schweigert:

Towards a Better Definition of Curation in Journalism — The role of the curator in journalism has become intertwined with the notion of aggregation: collecting information from various sources and piecing it together into a (hopefully, more or less) coherent whole.

Discussion: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com

Keenan Steiner / Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group:

Time Warner Cable posts its political file online, so why the fuss, NAB? — If posting already-public information on political ad spending is so damaging to broadcasters, as the National Association of Broadcasters argues, then why has one of the country's biggest cable providers been doing it since 2010?

David Conn / Guardian:

How football has kept the Murdoch empire afloat — If BSkyB hadn't secured the rights to the Premier League, the Leveson inquiry would almost certainly not be taking place — At the Leveson inquiry this week, the current and last Conservative prime ministers reflected on the fact …

Media Decoder:

Sports Illustrated to Cut Editorial Staff — Weeks before the Olympics and the start of N.F.L. Training Camp, Sports Illustrated is cutting editorial staff through buyouts and possible layoffs. — Terry McDonell, editor of the Time Inc. Sports Group, has asked reporters and editors to volunteer for buyout packages by June 21.

Discussion: Bloomberg and WWD

John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:

The Secret to ‘Ailing’ CNN's Success — Vanilla cable news channel CNN is ceaselessly derided for its rock-bottom primetime ratings and gimmicky presentation but the middle-of-the-road network is actually a profit-generating behemoth. Still, you wouldn't get that from the latest …