Mediagazer: U.S. Says Snowden Wouldn't Face Death Penalty (Devlin Barrett/Wall Street Journal)

1:05 PM ET, July 26, 2013

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Ebooks now make up 33 percent of Penguin's US revenue — Ebooks accounted for 33 percent of Penguin's U.S. revenue in the first half of 2013, parent company Pearson reported Friday, up from 31 percent this time last year. Worldwide, ebooks made up 21 percent of Penguin's revenue, up from 19 percent last year.

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Brian Fung / Wonkblog:

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Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Bradley Manning trial judge increased press security “because of repeat violations of the rules of court”

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Dave Lee / BBC:

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Miguel Helft / Fortune:

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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Says Snowden Wouldn't Face Death Penalty — Holder Also Rules Out Torture in Bid to Reassure Russia — WASHINGTON—U.S. authorities say National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wouldn't face the death penalty—and also promise he wouldn't be tortured—in a new letter hoping …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

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Sponsored content confusion: PolitiFact R.I. raps BuzzFeed for toothpaste thing — It's a challenge of which fact-checking trainees dream. On July 14, BuzzFeed published a list — 11 Awesome Facts You Never Knew About Rhode Island — that included one hilarious assertion: “In Providence …

Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

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Rob Evans / Guardian:

Prince Charles's letters: judges allow appeal against block on publication — High court judges give the Guardian right to challenge cabinet move to keep secret so-called ‘black spider memos’ — Three high court judges have given permission for an appeal to be mounted against a decision …

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Google ends Chromecast-Netflix promotion ‘due to overwhelming demand’ — Citing overwhelming demand, Google on Thursday said it has ended a Netflix promotion tied to its new Chromecast TV dongle. — The promotion gave users, new and existing, three free months of Netflix's video streaming service …

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Justin McLachlan / FishbowlDC:

Groundswell, the Conservative Journolist? — A few years ago, conservatives were in an uproar over the now presumably-defunct Journolist, the clubby listserv for liberal journos created by WaPo's Ezra Klein. So how will they feel about Groundswell, a conservative cloak and dagger group revealed …

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Mark Sweney / Guardian:

BSkyB annual results: Now TV ‘day pass’ sales hit 50,000 — • Sky's total TV customers rise to 10.4m as results for year to end of June see pre-tax profits rise 5.7% to £1.26bn — • Sky announces Now TV box for £9.99, allowing non-Sky subscribers to connect TV to internet

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Herald Sun:

Photog charged over topless photos of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge holidaying in France — A photographer suspected of having taken topless photographs of the wife of Britain's Prince William published last September in French magazine “Closer” was charged in June, sources close to the case told AFP.

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