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5:00 PM ET, March 30, 2013

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Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Goodreads is no Instagram: Amazon paid about $150 million  —  Estimates of the company's billion-dollar purchase price were sadly misguided  —  Terms of Amazon's acquisition of Goodreads haven't been disclosed, but that won't stop people from speculating.  Bloomberg Businessweek put forward …
Discussion: AllThingsD, Digits, Forbes and Thad McIlroy
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Authors Guild warns of monopoly in Amazon's purchase of Goodreads  —  The literary world gasped on Thursday when Amazon announced it had acquired Goodreads, a popular social networks that lets book lovers connect and share reviews with one another.  The deal gives Amazon control …
Kyle Stock / Businessweek:
Rampant Speculation: How Much Did Amazon Pay for Goodreads?  —  Valuing a social network is part art, part science, and part nonsense, but the spectrum has narrowed a bit in the past couple of years as sites like Pinterest and Twitter closed financing rounds and companies like LinkedIn hit public markets.
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
BusinessWeek's billion-dollar boo-boo  —  A poor piece spreads bogus news about Amazon's Goodreads acquisition  —  Bloomberg BusinessWeek makes itself look silly today, running a speculative piece on how much Amazon paid for its latest acquisition, Goodreads.  —  Here's the headline:
Discussion: Businessweek
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
New York Magazine Launches Enhanced iPad App  —  New York magazine is finally scrapping its digital replica app and launching a new interactive version of its weekly print magazine that was created with digital design agency The Wonderfactory and uses the Mag+ platform.
Discussion: Mobile Marketer Media
Eliza Kern / paidContent:
Generation Mooch?  Why 20-somethings have a hard time paying for content  —  I distinctly remember learning how to read, and it wasn't from a book or in a kindergarten classroom.  —  It was sitting at the breakfast table with my Dad every morning, when we would read the weather section of the Washington Post.
Discussion: New York Times and TeleRead
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Tuesday Q&A: Amanda Zamora on participation metrics, deeper engagement, and why ProPublica is heading to Reddit  —  When Amanda Zamora left The Washington Post for ProPublica last year, she said wanted to get back to her true love — social media.  She also saw it as an opportunity to step …
Karen Rothmyer / Columbia Journalism Review:
Kenya: a public editor learns her value  —  Shortly after I became the Kenya Star's public editor in early 2011, the paper published a story under the headline “Police move to stop sex party at Muliro Garden,” about the sorry state of a park in one of Kenya's outlying towns.
Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
The Hollywood Reporter Apologizes to Deadline Parent Company, Settles Lawsuit  —  The Hollywood Reporter admitted to stealing code from Penske Media Corporation, parent company of rival publications Deadline Hollywood and Variety, as part of a recent settlement the two companies reached to end their year-and-a-half-old legal dispute.
Jake New / Wired Campus:
Journal's Editorial Board Resigns in Protest of Publisher's Policy Toward Authors  —  [Updated (3/27/2013, 12:46 p.m.) with reaction from Taylor & Francis Group.]  —  The editor and the entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration have resigned in response to a conflict …
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Biting the hand that feeds you: why are record labels fighting Pandora?  —  Labels want streaming and web radio to grow the pie, but want their share too  —  A few years ago, leaders from the major record companies planted the seeds from which they hoped would spring the next generation of music distributors.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
NPR to End ‘Talk of the Nation’  —  BOSTON — NPR is ending the 21-year-old call-in radio show “Talk of the Nation” and encouraging local stations to replace it with an expanded version of “Here and Now,” an afternoon newscast that is produced here.  —  The plan, announced Friday …
 
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Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
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Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Bob Teague, WNBC Reporter Who Helped Integrate TV News, Is Dead at 84
Jon Chesto / Boston Business Journal:
Boston Globe publisher Chris Mayer plans changes even as paper is up for sale
Sara Morrison / Columbia Journalism Review:
Flipboard upgrades, Guardian signs on
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Ex-Daily Beaster Felsenthal heads to Time.com
Discussion: Folio and FishbowlNY
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
BuzzFeed launching longform ‘BuzzReads’ section
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Watch out, internet: Dave Winer is back in the business of making blogging tools
Discussion: TechCrunch and Dave Winer
Tim Carmody / The Verge:
President of HBO Sports says HBO Go will stream live events by the end of this year