Mediagazer: Amazon-Acquired Goodreads Says It Has 20M Members, Doubling In Less Than A Year (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

12:10 PM ET, July 23, 2013

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Reid Cherlin / New Republic:

End the White House Press Briefing! — It's an unholy charade — It is an accepted fact in Washington that the Obama administration and the press corps that covers it—once considered essentially two units of the same team—are now bitter enemies. After four years of smoldering disenchantment …

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Tessa Cheek / The Colorado Independent:

The Story after the Story: Remembering Armando Montaño a Year Later — Mando in full form in DC on a trip to the Newseum, which he jokingly referred to as his future wedding location. — A YEAR AGO this week, I found myself in Shove Chapel on Colorado College's campus where …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, @stephenceasar, @coindependent, @mike_littwin, @bdelossantos1 and @bschraum

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Nate Silver Went Against the Grain for Some at The Times — Why did Nate Silver decide to leave The New York Times and accept an offer from ESPN? — That's the cause of great speculation in media circles at the moment. As has been noted elsewhere, there's no question that The Times …

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Not Just for Mobile Anymore: Flipboard Magazines Come to the Web — The social magazine app Flipboard made a name for itself by being one of the first reading apps to take advantage of the iPad's form factor upon its debut. — Three years later, it's making its way to the Web.

Discussion: GigaOM, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET and Mashable

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

More Hispanics getting their news online & in English — Internet news sources have vastly outpaced newspapers among Hispanics, a new Pew Research study of news consumption finds. — 56 percent of Hispanics surveyed by Pew said they get news from the Internet on a typical weekday.

Discussion: Pew Hispanic Center and Politico

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Amazon-Acquired Goodreads Says It Has 20M Members, Doubling In Less Than A Year — Goodreads, the social reading service that Amazon acquired earlier this year, is announcing today that it has reached 20 million members. — CEO and co-founder Otis Chandler said that since it launched in 2007 …

Discussion: goodreads.com, Betabeat, VentureBeat, Softpedia News and Digital Book World

Lex Friedman / Macworld:

Apple: One billion iTunes podcast subscriptions and counting — Apple on Monday announced that the iTunes Store eclipsed 1 billion podcast subscriptions. That's a whole lot of talking. A special promotion appeared in the iTunes Podcasts directory to commemorate the big number.

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Wall Street Journal:

Alibaba Joins Smart-TV Race — Chinese E-Commerce Firm to Compete With Samsung, Apple, Lenovo — BEIJING—Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. became the latest technology company to take aim at the living room, unveiling a smart-TV operating system and a set-top box that will allow couch potatoes …

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David Kravets / Wired:

Local Newscast Uses DMCA to Erase Air Crash Reporting Blunder — Local San Francisco television news station KTVU has embarked on a novel use of copyright law to cover up embarrassing footage. It has been issuing takedown notices to YouTube for videos showing its anchor literally reading fake names …

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Its Media Head, as Mickie Rosen Ankles From Company — According to sources, Yahoo's media head Mickie Rosen is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant. — Rosen, who reported to COO Henrique De Castro, is one of the highest-ranking execs to depart the company in recent months.

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Time Inc.'s New CEO Says He's Open to Selling Titles — Time Warner decided earlier this year to spin off its publishing arm, but Joe Ripp, Time Inc.'s newly named CEO, hinted at more possible deals by the publisher of Time and People. — Rip said the company needed to stay open …

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Reuters:

Textbook publishers revamp ebooks to fight used market — (Reuters) - A booming market in recent years for selling and renting used college textbooks has saved students across the United States a ton of cash. — But it has put textbook publishers in a bind. They don't make a cent unless students buy their books new.