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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 …
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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 …
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paidContent, The Authors Guild, GalleyCat, Forbes, The Huffington Post, WebProNews and paidContent
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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Betabeat, Business Insider, ZDNet, LA Observed, @chrisdmasters, @dkiesow, PandoDaily, New York Times, @gcompadre, @michaelwolf, @alexckaufman, @percival and goodreads.com
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wall Street Journal, FishbowlLA and Variety
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 …
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Feral Librarian, bookforum.com, Above the Law and Boing Boing
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.
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Forbes, Pocket-lint, Electronista, The Drum, 9to5Mac, BGR, Softpedia News, App Advice, MacRumors and A VC
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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NPR, Poynter, Talking Biz News, LA Observed, Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post, NPR, Politico and The Wrap