Mediagazer: Can E-Books Save The Neighborhood Bookstore? (Michael Grothaus/Co.Labs)

1:05 PM ET, October 20, 2013

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Jennifer Mizgata / Online News Association:

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

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Michael Grothaus / Co.Labs:

Can E-Books Save The Neighborhood Bookstore? — While no one in the publishing world wants to halt the march of digital distribution, many would like to ensure the neighborhood bookstore doesn't go the way of the record store. That's why there are a growing number of people in the industry …

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Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

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Merissa Marr / Wall Street Journal:

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

All Hail Flipboard? — After the brouhaha that got kicked up over my comments about Flipboard last week, I had an initially somewhat awkward but eventually very pleasant conversation on Tuesday with Mike McCue, CEO of Flipboard, who wanted to discuss what he thought I missed in my post on Flipboard …

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Jordyn Taylor / The New York Observer:

Content Marketplace NewsCred is Hiring (and Seriously Paying) Freelancers — Since 2008, content marketplace NewsCred has been connecting high-profile brands with licensed content from top news organizations. — On Thursday, the site took its journalistic vision one step further by launching The NewsRoom …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Times deputy editor hails ‘phenomenal’ rise of women in newspapers — Emma Tucker says the appointments on her paper show that the press is leaving behind its historical gender imbalance — Emma Tucker, the new deputy editor of the Times, has hailed the “phenomenal” rise of women …

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Andrew Fitzgerald / Twitter blog:

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Laura Mills / Associated Press:

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

The Times Is Working on Ways to Make Numbers-Based Stories Clearer for Readers — Many readers have written to me recently, given the federal budget crisis, to make a simple request: Please advocate for news stories that put large numbers in context. If The Times does not do that, they say …

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