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Magazines and Their Web Sites, A Columbia Journalism Review survey and report by Victor Navasky with Evan Lerner, March 2010 “Virtually every significant magazine in the United Statesand increasingly abroadeither already has, or is in the process of establishing, a Web site. These interactive Internet offspring speak to a new generation of magazine readers, and …
News release: “Amazon.com today announced that the Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011, and Economic Report of the President, will both be available beginning tomorrow as free wireless downloads in Amazon’s Kindle Store…”Our customers have always been heavy readers of books about current events and economic issues,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, …
TechCrunch – Research firm Outsell has published its third annual News Users report [fee only], which is based on a survey about the online and offline news preferences of 2,787 US news consumers. The Outsell report unsurprisingly predicts ongoing, steep drops in US newspapers print circulation as consumers continue to head online for news consumption …
Security in the Ether – Information technology’s next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud–and prove we can trust it. By David Talbot, Technology Review, January/February 2010 [Dan Mitchel] “In 2006, when Amazon introduced the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), it was a watershed event in the quest to transform computing into a ubiquitous utility, …
News release: Amazon.com, Inc. today announced [December 26, 2009] that Kindle has become the most gifted item in Amazon’s history. On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books. The Kindle Store now includes over 390,000 books and the largest selection of the most popular books people want …
The Customer Is Always Right – Since founding Amazon in 1994, he has revolutionized retailing. Now he’s out to transform how we read. By Daniel Lyons | NEWSWEEK. “There are two ways that companies can extend what they’re doing. One is they can take an inventory of their skills and competencies, and then they can …
TIME – 50 Best Websites 2009: “50 offerings that are indispensable to navigating, enjoying yourself, shopping or just killing time on the Web.”
LLRX.com: Understanding the Limitations – and Maximizing the Value- of eBooks: The holiday season is here, and many signs suggest that thousands of people are finding themselves new owners of electronic book (“eBook”) readers. Whether it’s an Amazon Kindle, a Barnes & Noble Nook, a Sony Reader, or any of the less heavily advertised devices …
The eYouGuide, Europe’s first online tool giving consumers practical advice on their “digital rights” under EU law is now available in 10 languages. “The eYouGuide was launched in Strasbourg on 5 May 2009 (see IP/09/702). The guide provides information on a number of issues related to online activities, such as shopping online, networking, uploading and …
News release: “Marketers of violent music, movies, and video games can do more to restrict the promotion of these products to children, according to the seventh in a series of Federal Trade Commission reports on marketing violent entertainment to children. The FTCs report states that the music industry still has not adopted objective marketing standards …
Google News Blog: “There are more than 25,000 publishers from around the world in Google News today. [With] the new Google News web crawler publishers [can]…keep their content out of Google News and still remain in Google Search…if a publisher wants to opt out of Google News, they don’t even have to contact us – …
Follow up to previous postings on Google Book Search (GBS), Google and the New Digital Future, Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard “…The digitizing, open-access distribution, and preservation of orphan works could be done by a nonprofit organization such as the Internet Archive, a nonprofit group that was built as a …
