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Wal-Mart, Target Put Squeeze on Redbox
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| Wal-Mart is boxing out Redbox. Wal-Mart
| (WMT), the world's largest retailer, has
| imposed strict limits on the number of DVDs
| any one customer can buy at a time, making
| it harder for movie-rental kiosks such as
| Coinstar's (CSTR) Redbox to get their hands
| on large numbers of newly released discs.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2010/tc2010022_125668.htm
Elisabeth Murdoch: âBorderline Piracy May Be Our Best Outletâ
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| While father Rupert Murdoch decries the
| âtheftâ of his news content, is his
| daughter Elisabeth admitting that some
| piracy must actually be accepted?
|
| âFans remain the best salesmen of our
| content, even if that behavior is on the
| borderline of piracy. Danger of the new
| world is that we must concede that weâll
| lose some control,â Murdoch, who owns TV
| producer Shine, said in a speech to the
| NATPE TV conference in Las Vegas on
| Wednesday. That must take us to âthe
| borderline of piracyâ, she said, according
| to Broadcasting & Cable.
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http://paidcontent.org/article/419-murdoch-jr-borderline-piracy-may-be-our-best-outlet/
Behold âThe Amazon Effectâ: Now Murdochâs Gunning for the $10 E-Book
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| Smelling blood in the water after Amazon
| caved to Macmillanâs demand to stop selling
| e-books of their titles for only $10, News
| Corp Chief Rupert Murdoch says he, too,
| wants that deal.
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http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/behold-the-amazon-effect-now-murdochs-gunning-for-the-10-e-book/
Book Publishing Industry Just Now Realizing That Change Is Turbulent?
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| As the latest episode of "the ebook wars"
| continues, there's still lots of chatter
| about last weekend's Macmillan/Amazon
| fight. Apparently a lot of authors are
| angry at Amazon for this. While I can
| understand how the fight might hurt some
| authors -- and they're justifiably worried
| about Amazon's dominance in the ebook
| market today...
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100204/0133038041.shtml
Newsday: We Don't Care About Paid Online Subscribers, Duh
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| Here, Newsday's counterpoint to the
| embarrassing report earlier this week about
| their dismal online subscriber numbers.
| That is not even part of their strategy,
| jerks.
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http://gawker.com/5458766/newsday-we-dont-care-about-paid-online-subscribers-duh
Ten Good Reasons To Buy: The Newspaper Edition
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| So, with the New York Times going metered
| and rejecting a proposed membership model
| that would have been much more CwF+RtB-ish,
| I thought it might be worth looking at
| Mikeâs list from the perspective of
| newspaper publishing. Though some of the
| ideas are more suited to musicians, it
| still qualifies as Ten Good Reasons to Buy.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100201/0354087988.shtml
Yes, If You Don't Do Anything, You Shouldn't Expect People To Just Give You Money
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| In the discussion on our recent post about CwF
| + RtB business models and how they work, one
| of our regular critics has been filling the
| comments with links that supposedly "disprove"
| this model. I find it fascinating that this
| person -- who claims to spend time helping
| musicians -- spends so much time in our
| comments constantly insisting that the
| examples that we show that work couldn't
| possibly work.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100201/1830267996.shtml
Massive Disconnect: Paywall Analysis Claims It's Reasonable To Expect 66% Of Readers To Pay
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| I'd argue that getting even 5% to pay, as
| one recent study suggested, may be wildly
| optimistic. 66% is downright delusional.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100127/2059297951.shtml
Mark Cuban Tells Newspapers To Pull Out Of Google... As He Invests In Competitors?
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| Danny Sullivan comes to the rescue by
| pointing out that while Cuban is telling
| sites that Google traffic is worthless,
| he's invested in Mahalo, an aggregator site
| that lives off of Google traffic and still
| tries to do some similar aggregation
| efforts, such as IceRocket.com (which is a
| direct competitor to Google News... though
| no one uses it). Meanwhile, an old
| interview dug up by Michael Arrington has
| Cuban talking about how much he'd like to
| invest in TechMeme -- a similar aggregator.
| Clearly, Cuban is playing some sort of
| trick on media companies.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100203/1337558027.shtml
License to control?
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| The Digital Economy Bill that is wending
| its glacial way through the UK parliament
| has produced an interesting row between the
| BPI (representing the interests of the
| major record labels) and the ISPs, telcoâs
| and mobile network operators. They are
| arguing over who should pay how much to
| fund remedial measures to clamp down on
| illegal file-sharing. The BPI is in a tough
| place since the cheaper they argue the cost
| will be, the more the ISPs respond by
| saying âwell then you can pay for it.â
| Minister Stephen Timms recently suggested
| the split should be 75/25 (with the BPI
| paying the greater amount).
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http://jeremy1.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/license-to-control/
Recent:
Google tells Murdoch to shut up
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| But Schmidt said Google is a "great source
| of promotion" for newspapers through its
| aggregator website Google News and other
| services.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1564786/google-tells-murdoch-shut
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