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A Veteran of Big Music Explains Why Big Music Is Doomed
Monday, February 8, 2010
Barnes & Noble’s Nook Finally Limps Into Stores. Too Late?
Friday, February 5, 2010
Want to Use New York City’s Coolest App? Get a Google Phone.
Apple has some 140,000 apps for its iPhone users. People who use phones with Google’s Android operating system have much less choice.
But here’s a consolation prize: Android users do get to use the coolest app in New York City. At least, according to the NYC Big App competition, which awarded its Grand Prize last night to WayFinder NYC, an Android-only app.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Hachette Joins Apple’s Anti-Amazon Book Club
Here’s another publisher publicly throwing its weight behind Apple–and against Amazon–in the e-book pricing war. Hachette Book Group says it will pursue the “agency model” for pricing e-books: It sets retail prices and the retailer gets a 30 percent cut. In more practical terms, this means Hachette’s titles will be getting more expensive, and the rest of the industry will be following suit.
The AppFund Wants to Make iPad Developers a Deal. Should They Take It?
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Time Inc.’s Magazines Get Less Bad, With Some Help From People
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
News Corp.: Conan’s Not Coming to Fox Just Yet; Amazon’s Ready to Bend on E-Book Pricing
A Father and Son Team That Founds Web Start-Ups Wants to Finance Them, Too: Ken and Ben Lerer Get Their Own Fund
Monday, February 1, 2010
Steve Jobs Sells the iPad in Three Minutes. Amazing!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Amazon Gives In to Macmillan and Apple, and E-Book Prices Will Go Up
Amazon caves after two days, agreeing to Macmillan’s demands to sell its e-books at a higher price–otherwise known as the Apple iPad pricing plan. In doing so, the world’s biggest e-commerce player has made a tacit admission that e-book prices will rise across the board.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
The Apple-Amazon Book War Heats Up and Claims Macmillan as a Casualty
Apple has yet to sell its first e-book, but it is already engaged in a bruising battle with Amazon for control of the market. The most recent salvo: Amazon has stopped selling all books from MacMillan, apparently in response to the publisher’s plans to sell its books at a higher price point through Apple.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
AT&T Has a Million Reasons to Love E-Books, and the iPad Is Bringing More
Wall Street Gets It: It’s Way Too Early to Vote on the iPad
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
With Google Gone, Elevation Invests in Yelp–Just as It Wanted To
Whatever happened between Google and Yelp is now officially kaput: Instead of selling the entire company to the search giant, Yelp’s owners will be taking up to $100 million in funding from private equity shop Elevation Partners–who had been trying to get a deal done with the local reviews site for months.
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