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10:25 PM ET, December 30, 2014

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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
After two months in Kindle Unlimited program, profits for one Amazon author dropped 75%  —  Amazon Offers All-You-Can-Eat Books.  Authors Turn Up Noses.  —  Authors are upset with Amazon.  Again.  —  For much of the last year, mainstream novelists were furious that Amazon was discouraging …
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John Scalzi / Whatever:
Finite revenue pool makes Kindle Unlimited a zero-sum game for writers and publishers  —  Subscription Model Squabbles  —  So, authors, you'll all remember when, in the middle of the Amazon-Hachette spit-fight, I noted that Amazon isn't your friend, it's a business entity with its own goals …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
The New Republic's managing editor Linda Kintsler and three others resign  —  Four more resign from TNR  —  Four more members of The New Republic's masthead resigned this week, dealing yet another blow to the already depleted magazine, POLITICO has learned.
Ben Preston / RadioTimes:
BBC pulls controversial documentary about death of Princess Diana after Royal family lawyers intervene  —  BBC pulls controversial royal documentary about spin after death of Princess Diana  —  Radio Times reveals last-minute decision to postpone BBC2 broadcast followed legal intervention
Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune:
How Disney CEO Bob Iger uses technology to keep every division of his company relevant  —  Disney CEO Bob Iger's empire of tech  —  Even in a dress-down gray sweater, Bob Iger looks a bit mechanical.  His mouth is almost geometrically straight, his face constructed of some cool alloy.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Disney enlists Maker Studios to create “Star Wars” short-form sponsored videos online ahead of next film release in December 2015  —  Disney Enlists Maker to Create ‘Star Wars’ Series Online  —  Maker Studios, the Web video network owned by Walt Disney Co. (DIS) …
Discussion: @lucas_shaw, Thanks:@lucas_shaw
Kevin Draper / The Concourse:
46 Vox posts that misinformed readers, and the corrections that show magnitude of the mistakes  —  46 Times Vox Totally F**ked Up A Story  —  If you work in the media, you're going to get things wrong.  Accuracy and timeliness are in conflict, and when you're dealing with vast amounts of information, accuracy will sometimes suffer.
Dave McNary / Variety:
The Interview is a top seller on YouTube Movies and Google Play  —  ‘The Interview’ Becomes 2014's Top Seller on Google Sites  —  In six days, Sony's comedy “The Interview” has become 2014's bestseller on a pair of Google streaming sites — Google Play and YouTube Movies — according to a Google spokesperson.
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Tim Marchman named editor of Deadspin  —  Tim Marchman is to be the next editor of Deadspin, the Gawker Media sports blog, outgoing editor Tommy Craggs confirmed to Capital.  —  Craggs, who is moving to a new position as executive editor of Gawker Media, announced the news on …
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
In Its Last 6 Months Of Existence, Aereo Subscriptions Grew 40%  —  Yes, Aereo Inc. was tiny.  But it grew a lot faster than most people thought.  —  The now-defunct Web TV service, which recently filed for bankruptcy, ended its run in June with a little more than 108,000 subscribers in 14 cities …
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Washington Post hopes to generate more revenue by licensing its content management system to other news organizations  —  Here's A New, Inventive Way Jeff Bezos Plans To Make Money From The Washington Post  —  When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013 …
Kenneth Li / Re/code:
Tencent Will Be Re/code's Content Partner in China  —  Get ready to find us in other languages.  —  Re/code will start making its content available on Tencent's QQ.com, marking our first deal with a Chinese Internet company.  —  Tech giant Tencent, which owns the dominant messaging platform in China …
Discussion: @stevekovach
 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
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Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
The US CFPB fines BloomTech, formerly Lambda School, and CEO Austen Allred $164K and bans BloomTech from lending for 10 years over deceiving students on loans

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