Mediagazer: Start-up Ganxy Launches Ebook Bundling Option for Publishers to Sell Direct (Digital Book World)

9:00 AM ET, December 13, 2012

Top News:

Amid ‘dismay’ from Times journalists over Harding exit - News Corp mulls seven-day operation — News International is understood to have taken legal advice about merging The Times and Sunday Times into a seven-day operation. — The Times reports the development today in a report …

Discussion: Deadline.com and Telegraph

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

James Harding pulls out of BBC Question Time after quitting as editor — Former Times boss to be replaced on Thursday night's current affairs debating show by Lord Bilimoria, founder of Cobra beer — James Harding, who resigned as Times editor on Wednesday, has pulled out of a scheduled appearance on this week's BBC's Question Time.

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

My master plan for revolutionizing the future of publishing and saving tablet-native journalism — I have a lot of respect for the publishing industry and the futurists who try to predict where it's heading. Nobody in that business has it particularly easy.

Discussion: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com and Felix Salmon

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

The best (and worst) media errors and corrections of 2012 — If my annual tally of plagiarism and fabrication incidents is the depressing part of “Regret the Error"'s year-end coverage, then this annual collection of the best of the worst in errors and corrections is the highlight.

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite, TVWeek.com, Boing Boing, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, Pressing Issues and kottke.org

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

News Corporation spends £100m on management and standards committee — Team set up to probe alleged illegal activity after phone-hacking scandal is costing more than £1m a week — News Corporation's management and standards committee, established last year to root …

Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks took £10.8m compensation from News Corp

Discussion: Telegraph

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Amazon wins EU e-book pricing battle with Apple — (Reuters) - European Union regulators ended an antitrust probe into e-book prices on Thursday, accepting an offer by Apple and four publishers to ease pricing restrictions on Amazon and other retailers. — The decision hands online retailer Amazon …

Discussion: TechCrunch, paidContent, Agence France Presse, ZDNet, standard.co.uk, SlashGear, The Next Web and Engadget

Digital Book World:

Start-up Ganxy Launches Ebook Bundling Option for Publishers to Sell Direct — Ebook sales and marketing start-up Ganxy is launching a new feature to its storefront widget that allows publishers to bundle ebooks to sell groups of them together at a discount.

Discussion: paidContent

Sarah McBride / Reuters:

Andreessen denies Internet bubble, advises Times to stop printing — (Reuters) - Far from experiencing a bubble, Silicon Valley has been in the throes of a “technology depression,” Netscape co-founder and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said at the New York Times Dealbook conference on Wednesday.

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Interview: Google expands mobile mag products amid web threat — Google has launched its Play Magazines storefront for UK Android devices and relaunched its Currents Flipboard app competitor, and more magazine announcements are due in a couple of weeks. — Google's EMEA news …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Official Android Blog and VentureBeat

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Study says half of media buyers will try native advertising in 2013 — “Native advertising” is being hailed as the ad format of the future by everyone from venture capitalist Fred Wilson to BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti. Now, a survey suggests brands are ready to put down serious money to try it out.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Ryan Chittum / CJR:

Paywall illogic — Steve Buttry distorts our arguments—and the evidence — Followers of the hot 'n heavy paywall debate—all seven of you—may find it hard to believe, but there's plenty of room for consensus on whether digital subscriptions are good, bad, or indifferent for news.

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

The New York Times Names a New Business Editor — Dean Murphy, a reporter and editor with The New York Times for the last 12 years, will be the next editor of the business section of The Times. The announcement was made on Wednesday afternoon in a memo from Jill Abramson, executive editor of The Times.

Discussion: FishbowlNY and Capital New York

David Carr / Media Decoder:

Another Portrait of Imminent Death, but One Worthy of Publishing — This security-camera still taken moments before the murder of Brandon Woodard, who is looking at his smartphone. — Last week, there was a Web's worth of debate about the decision of The New York Post to publish …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and NY Daily News