Mediagazer: Pandora with friends: Turntable launches Piki, a social radio app for iPhone and web (Ellis Hamburger/The Verge)

4:05 PM ET, April 11, 2013

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Ebooks made up 23 percent of US publisher sales in 2012, says the AAP — Ebooks accounted for nearly a quarter of the U.S. trade book business in 2012, according to statistics released Thursday by the Association of American Publishers. The ebook industry appears to be maturing, however …

Discussion: PublishersWeekly.com and Digital Book World

Eric Mark Do / MediaShift:

Toronto Star Tests Monthly E-Book Subscriptions — The Toronto Star is testing the e-book market with a dedicated subscription model. Launched in November 2012, Star Dispatches is the brainchild of the Toronto Star's marketing department. The Star already has more than 20 titles …

Discussion: @jeffsonderman

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Confirms Ned Brody Has Resigned As Head Of AOL Networks, CEO Armstrong Takes Over In The Interim [Memo] — Some turmoil in the management ranks at AOL, with Yahoo, apparently, hoping to profit as part of its ongoing hiring spree. AOL (which owns TechCrunch) has confirmed to us that Ned Brody …

Discussion: AllThingsD, AdAge, MinOnline, FishbowlNY, Business Insider and SlashGear

Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:

String of Executive Departures Leaves a Leadership Vacuum at the Top of Tumblr — Late Tuesday night, while most of New York City was “afk” enjoying the balmy weather, Tumblr CEO David Karp snuck a post onto the staff blog paying tribute to Storyboard—a team of journalists and editors assigned to …

Discussion: Digiday, @justinnxt, Mashable and Daily Dot

Josh Catone / Mashable:
Orphaned Tumblr Storyboard Posts Find New Home on Mashable

Discussion: The Huffington Post, PandoDaily and Tumblr Editorial

Jim Romenesko:

Remember when Pulitzer finalists were leaked? — I responded: “I think the demise of the old E&P, which was obsessed with the prizes, has a lot to do with it.” Joe Strupp used to do a great job getting judges to leak the finalists to Editor & Publisher. — I asked Strupp …

Sue Marek / FierceWireless:

Verizon CEO: 50% of our wireless traffic is video — LAS VEGAS—Video accounts for 50 percent of Verizon Wireless' (NYSE:VZ) network traffic today and by 2017 the carrier estimates video will make up two-thirds of all traffic over the network. Speaking at the National Association …

Discussion: ZDNet, The Verge, App Advice, MacRumors, SlashGear, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, GigaOM and Softpedia News

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

‘The Bible’ on Fox News Channel? It almost happened — News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, right, wanted the miniseries “The Bible” for the Fox News Channel. (The Bible/Lightworkers Media and Hearst Entertainment/Rupert Murdoch/Associated Press / April 10, 2013)

Brooke Sutherland / Bloomberg:

Dish Deals Made Possible by Exxon-Like Cash: Real M&A — Dish Network Corp. (DISH) Chairman Charlie Ergen has accumulated a record $10 billion in cash, leaving investors to speculate whether he's setting his sights on a takeover of T-Mobile USA Inc. or a merger with rival DirecTV.

Discussion: dailywireless.org, Denver Business Journal and FierceWireless

Jackie Spinner / American Journalism Review:

Launching a Startup in Iraq — When ExxonMobil hired a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq as a consultant on its oil business there, an upstart news service broke the story. The February disclosure was the second major scoop involving Exxon for 32-year-old Ben Lando, who founded the Web-based Iraq Oil Report …

Jack Marshall / Digiday:

The Web's Worst Ad Clutter Offenders — Web advertising is a volume game, an arms race to ward off declining CPM prices. The way to combat that: create more Ms. — Web publishers talk a big game about cleaner, less cluttered sites, but when push comes to shove, they look to cram as many ad pixels as they can on pages.

Discussion: MarketingVox News & Trends

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of recycling journalism — There's an important number in his week's first-of-its-kind Newspaper Association of America report — The American Newspaper Media Industry Revenue Profile 2012 — on the evolution of revenue sources. That number: 8 percent.

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Pandora with friends: Turntable launches Piki, a social radio app for iPhone and web — Can people deliver better music recommendations than algorithms? — “We realized early on that Turntable's best feature was also a problem: everybody has to be in a room at exactly the same time,” says Billy Chasen, Turntable CEO.

Discussion: TechCrunch, MacRumors, Mashable, PandoDaily, hypebot and The Next Web