P2P Magazine Portal 'Mygazines'and the Napster Reflex (2)
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Hugo E. Martin on Media, Marketing & Internet (10)
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of course there is a legal part, which needs to be sorted out ... the MPA is going the way the music and movie industry has taken on this blatant infringement of copyright. More at Folio: ... AdAgeIf there is an interest on such a service by users, why not talk to them (and others) and but some creative mind to it, finding ways how to improve this service and benefit from it ...?Mygazines creator ...
Get iPhone availability every 15 minutes with TopMuffin (1)
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Even in Apple’s home-base of the good ‘ole U-S-of-A, Apple has had trouble keeping up with enormous iPhone 3G demand. With more than 1 million iPhone 3G units already out in circulation, it’s not hard to see why the rookie handset manufacturer is struggling to keep their Apple Stores stocked with iPhone 3G’s. In response to the demand, Apple has even adopted new Apple Store operating hours. The lack of iPhone 3G stock has spurred ...
McFly boost the Mail On Sunday (1)
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The McFly giveaway has worked some magic for the Mail On Sunday, which sold an extra 300,000 copies on the back of the free record this weekend. Although, oddly, not in London:"That is probably indicative of people moving over the week with the school holidays," [Mail on Sunday managing director Stephen] Miron said.Y-e-es. We did hear that last weekend London was virtually empty, save for one woman from Camden who had been asked to feed ...
Is Digital Marketing Killing Magazine Ads?</ (1)
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Is Digital Marketing Killing Magazine Ads?BY Jason BaerA report last week by the Publishers Information Bureau found that advertising pages in the nation’s magazines declined by 7.4% compared to the first half of 2007. With the stock market down by about 20%, and house prices down at least that much in some parts of the country, a 7% dip in magazine ads may seem less frightening than the prospect that Angelina Jolie will somehow end ...
When Your Library Has Six Figures Worth of Overdues - Who Ya Gonna Call (1)
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Librarians don't like to use the word stolen, but in the last three years, nearly $350,000 worth of goods has disappeared from the Bucks Country Public Library. Now Bucks administrators plan to retain an Indiana collection agency that works exclusively with libraries to recover property and get deadbeat borrowers to pay fines and fees. The firm, Unique Management Services Inc., doesn't use tough-talking, pay-us-or-we'll-ruin-your-credit collection agents. employs seminarians. Honest to God. Who better than a ...
Another one bites the dust (1)
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Newspaper Death Watch (26)
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Well, that was fast. On Tuesday, Transcontinental Media of Montreal announced that it was shutting down the Halifax Daily News, effective immediately. By the next day, the newspaper’s home page had already been relaunched as Metro Halifax, one of the expanding network of free Metro dailies being stamped out by Metro International S.A. The Daily news just couldn’t continue, said Marc-Noel Ouellette, senior vice-president at Transcontinental. “It was costing a fortune.” The Daily News’ tiny ...
Andreessen initiates NY Times death watch (1)
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Welcome Web wunderkind Marc Andreessen to the deathwatch! In a savage post on his blog, the Netscape co-founder announces “I hereby inaugurate my New York Times Deathwatch, which will continue until the last Sulzberger has left the building.” The diatribe was touched off by the announcement that arch-conservative Bill Kristol will become a Times columnist, but Andreessen has problems with the whole Times company, and he lists them with withering eloquence: Total quarterly revenues fell ...
Threats and rumors in Philly and Boston (1)
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Inquirer Publisher Seeks More Cost Cuts - AP, Jan. 23, 2008 Quoting: “The owners of Philadelphia’s two largest newspapers said they need tocut costs by an additional 10 percent or the company will face dire consequences…Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC would have trouble meeting debt payments if it doesn’t make changes…[A columnist says:] ‘We’ve gone through a series of economic cuts in the past years, and it is hard to see where they can cut further.’…One ...
Look back in horror: an industry reflects (1)
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The end of the year was a good time for newspaper insiders and critics alike to review a pretty terrible year and wonder what come next. $23B zapped in news stock value – Reflections of a Newsosaur, Jan. 1, 2008 [Alan Mutter runs the numbers and concludes that US newspaper companies have lost 42% of their market value in the last three years, with the majority of that decline coming in 2007. He further suggests ...
