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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

What Book Will Amazon Delete Next?

1984Last week, Amazon acknowledged that it deleted some copies of “1984″ and “Animal Farm” from customers’ Kindles. So what book will be next?

Because while Amazon has said it won’t repeat what it did last week, it hasn’t actually sworn off remote book-removal–or remote-anything removal, for that matter–altogether. Does that worry you? It should.

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

A Google Lawyer Waves Goodbye, Lands at Twitter

macgillivrayWe’re used to seeing Google vets leave for Facebook. Now they’re headed to Twitter.

The buzzy microblogging service has just grabbed its highest-profile Google exec to date: Alexander Macgillivray, a deputy general counsel at the search firm, is coming aboard as Twitter’s top lawyer.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Optimism Meets Reality: On the Ground at ad:tech

Online advertising may be slowing, but that isn’t putting a damper on one of the industry’s biggest trade shows. An insider offers tips on how to navigate.

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Friday, October 31, 2008

Would You Pay $162 a Year for All the Music You Can Eat?

That’s the offer, sort of, being made by something called Datz Music Lounge. Are there catches? You bet–this is the music business, after all. But it’s a potentially intriguing idea that could work both for music fans and the industry.

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About Peter

Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider.

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Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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