Mediagazer: Amazon, Warner Bros. Near Resolution on Pricing Dispute (Wall Street Journal)

9:35 AM ET, June 25, 2014

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Mayer Nissim / Digital Spy:

No jury verdict on Andy Coulson, Clive Goodman misconduct charges — The jury in the phone hacking trial have been unable to reach a majority verdict on charges against Andy Coulson and Clive Goodman of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office regarding the alleged payment to police officers for two royal directories.

Discussion: Guardian, New York Times, Press Gazette, The New Yorker Blog, ABC, Wall Street Journal, Daily Mail, Telegraph, @c4marcus, @c4marcus, @peterjukes, @peterjukes and @peterjukes

Nick Davies / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch: Scotland Yard want interview about crime at his UK papers — Exclusive: Detectives contacted media mogul last year but agreed with lawyers to wait until end of phone-hacking trial — Rupert Murdoch has been officially informed by Scotland Yard that detectives want to interview …

Matthew Holehouse / Telegraph:

Andy Coulson: There was no ‘cooked-up conspiracy’ with News International, David Cameron says — Phone hacking trial: David Cameron says Leveson exonerated him on the appointment of Andy Coulson, as Ed Miliband says he brought “disgrace to Downing Street” — There was no “conspiracy” …

Discussion: BBC and The Independent

The Huffington Post UK/PA:

Tony Blair And David Cameron Slammed By Milly Dowler's Sister For ‘Incestuous’ Press Relationship (VIDEO) — David Cameron, Bob Dowler, Gemma Dowler, Sally Dowler, Tony Blair, UK Media, Budget 2014, Leveson Inquiry, Milly Dowler, UK NEWS, UK Politics News — Milly Dowler's sister …

Discussion: Press Association and BBC

Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:

Peter Greste: don't abandon me and other jailed al-Jazeera journalists — As three journalists are moved to a new jail in Egypt, Greste's brother relays his call for their story to be kept alive — Peter Greste has called on the international community not to abandon him and two other journalists jailed …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Business Insider, The Newspaper Guild and The White House

Patricia Zengerle / Reuters: US lawmakers reviewing $1B in military aid to Egypt after sentencing of al Jazeera journalists

Emily Steel / New York Times:

Time Inc. launches 120 Sports, a digital only sports network, with Pro Leagues, NFL — Time Inc. to Start 120 Sports, a Digital Network, With Pro Leagues — It's a sports network catering to the shortened attention spans of the mobile and social media generation: 240 clips …

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Benedicte Page / The Bookseller:

Amazon seeks new UK terms, including POD for out-of-stock titles, ceiling on e-book list price — Amazon pressing for new terms in UK — UK publishers have raised concerns about Amazon's new contractual arrangements, with the giant retailer pressing for improved terms from a number of publishers …

Discussion: Guardian, Beyond Search, @ebbandflobooks, Good E-Reader, Bookseller news and Melville House Books

Michael Cader / Publishers Lunch:
Hachette agrees to buy Perseus in three-way deal; Ingram to acquire Perseus distribution and client units

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Ofcom:

UK news consumption: 75% television, 40% newspapers; 41% access news on websites and apps — Digital news as popular as newspapers for first time — Accessing news on the web and mobile apps is now as popular as reading a newspaper, new Ofcom research finds.

Discussion: TechCrunch, BBC, Guardian and City A.M.

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Amazon responds to German antitrust complaint, says it wants a larger commission on ebooks — The German Publishers and Booksellers Association (Börsenverein) announced Tuesday that it's asked German antitrust authorities to investigate Amazon's actions against publisher Bonnier in the country.

Discussion: Melville House Books

Sarah Sloat / Wall Street Journal:
German Publishing Group Files Complaint Against Amazon

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Wall Street Journal:

Amazon, Warner Bros. Near Resolution on Pricing Dispute — Amazon.com has reversed a halt on preorders of movie discs from Time Warner's Warner Bros. studio as the two sides near a resolution to a pricing dispute.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Bookseller news, PandoDaily, Variety, The Verge, Mashable, VentureBeat, TIME and Engadget

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

More On Indie Labels And YouTube: Some Legitimate Concerns, But Still A Lot Of Misplaced Anger — Last week, we wrote about how some of the stories making the rounds concerning YouTube “blocking” musicians from using YouTube and taking down videos if they didn't agree to non-negotiable contract terms …

Paul Resnikoff / Digital Music News:
The Complete YouTube Contract for Indies

Discussion: Business Insider, @nichodges, @johnpaczkowski, TheJournal.ie and Daily Dot

Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:

AT&T, DirecTV tell congressional subcommittees they must merge to compete with TWC, Comcast — AT&T and DirecTV Try to Sell Congress on Benefits of Proposed Merger — Companies Say They Must Join Forces to Compete Against Comcast and Time Warner Cable

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, NationalJournal.com, Washington Post, Re/code, Deadline.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Bloomberg, Advanced Television, Businessweek and Reuters

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: AT&T/DirecTV and Comcast/TWC mergers could put small ISPs “out of business”

Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:

Diane Sawyer to Step Down from ABC's ‘World News,’ David Muir to Take Over — Muir will take over in September, while George Stephanopoulos becomes chief anchor at ABC News. — After five years in the World News anchor chair, Diane Sawyer will step down in the September …

Discussion: ABC News, TVNewser and The Huffington Post

Associated Press:

Barnes & Noble wants to separate retail, Nook — NEW YORK (AP) — Barnes & Noble says it wants to split its retail bookstores and Nook media business into two separate public companies as it looks to boost shareholder value. — The bookseller's stock jumped more than 8 percent in Wednesday premarket trading.

Discussion: Bloomberg, MarketWatch and Proactiveinvestors USA …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Ex-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar teases video startup Vessel, raises $75M from Benchmark, Greylock, and Bezos — Amazon's Jeff Bezos backs ex-Hulu CEO Jason Kilar's startup Vessel — Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar still doesn't want to say much about the startup he has been working on since last fall.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Variety, Wall Street Journal, @pkafka, @jbruin, Gigaom, Above the Crowd and TechCrunch

Cynthia Littleton / Variety:

TV station swap: Fox gets KTVU, KICU in San Francisco; Cox gets Boston's WFXT, WHBQ in Memphis — Fox Acquires San Francisco TV Stations in Swap with Cox — Fox is acquiring two San Francisco TV stations in a station-swap agreement with Cox Media Group.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Media Nation, bizjournals, @dankennedy_nu, @506sports, The Wrap and Radio & Television …

Andy / TorrentFreak:

YouTube Terminates Top Indian News Network For Infringement — While many people get away with uploading infringing content to YouTube, the site's ContentID system ensures that content belonging to many of the world's leading entertainment companies gets spotted when it's uploaded by an unauthorized third-party.

Discussion: Softpedia News

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Apple TV's walled garden gets new channel: AOL — With the arrival of an AOL video channel on the Apple TV set-top box Tuesday, Apple is now bringing a wide array of free, ad-supported video across the deep moat it has built around its $99 streaming-media device.