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Hearst launching Skiff distribution system and Kindle competitor
'by publishers, for publishers,' thinks you'll want it too
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| Despite all the problems with the Kindle --
| poor PDF support, low-contrast screen,
| Orwellian fears -- it makes for a mighty-
| fine reading experience for users. From a
| publisher's perspective it stinks, with
| Amazon reportedly sucking down 70% of a
| sale's proceeds.
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http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/hearst-corp-creating-kindle-competitor-by-publishers-for-publ/
How Hollywood plans to keep prices up as movies go online
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| Digital downloads have broken apart the
| album and decimated major label music
| revenues. So movies will also get cheap and
| DRM-free as they increasingly migrate to
| the 'Net, right? Think again.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/hollywoods-plan-to-keep-prices-high-as-movies-go-digitaland-why-it-just-might-work.ars
Vinyl frontier: Why records sales are soaring again
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| By reissuing classic albums on vinyl, the
| industry has convinced fans to purchase
| music that they've already bought on CD
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/dec/02/vinyl-frontier-record-sales
Spanish Manifesto in Defense of Fundamental Rights on the Internet
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| People are beginning to recognize the
| growing conflict between individual rights
| and "intellectual property"--and, if forced
| to choose, are choosing real, individual
| rights over IP. Hopefully it won't stop
| here.
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http://www.againstmonopoly.org/index.php?perm=593056000000001944
Recent:
Major Label Messes With the Wrong Guy
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| Tim Quirk, a senior vice president at the
| digital music service Rhapsody, used to
| front a band that was signed to one of the
| major labels, Warner Bros.
|
| His experiences at Rhapsody taught him
| firsthand that itâs possible to build a big
| database that accounts for what each
| copyright holder is owed. However, he and
| others contend, major labels have no
| incentive to put such a transparent
| database in place â quite the opposite:
| They only stand to benefit by obfuscating
| the accounting process for middle- and
| long-tail bands and tracking their digital
| streams and downloads casually.
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http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/major-label-messes-with-wrong-guy/
Spanish activists issue manifesto on the rights of Internet users
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| Javier "Barrapunto" Candeira writes, "Last
| Monday the Spanish Government sent the
| parliament the latest draft for the Ley de
| Economia Sostenible (Sustainable Economy
| Act), which contained riders modifying the
| current laws on copyright and interactive
| services. These amendments give the Spanish
| Ministy of Culture the administrative power
| to take down websites (or order ISPs to
| block those hosted overseas), all without a
| court order and in the name of
| 'safeguarding Intellectual Property Laws
| against Internet Piracy'.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/02/spanish-activists-is.html
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