 | May 14, 2013 |
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Top HeadlinesFiguring out which titles are going expire soon on Netflix just got a lot harder: The company changed its public API Monday night to prevent this information from popping up on third-party websites. Read More »The Associated Press is raising the alarm over news that the Justice Department secretly seized records for more than 20 phone lines tied to its reporters and bureaus. Read More »As more sites focus on longform content, Fast Company disclosed some statistics on how its longer pieces have been doing -- but the data shows that the real secret isn't length but ongoing engagement with readers. Read More »Jane Austen scholars know "Sanditon" as a posthumously-published unfinished novel, but for Lizzie Bennet Diaries fans, it's the springboard for a new bridge series that promises unprecedented audience interactivity. Read More »Amazon has acquired Samsung's color screen display technology, Liquavista. The technology could be used to create low-power color screens for Kindles. Read More »Research from McKinsey seems to suggest that print-based media still commands a large proportion of time spent by consumers of news -- but that is just part of the larger picture media companies have to understand. Read More »Bloomberg is at the center of a storm over its reporters' use of the company's terminals to track customers. The incident has been somewhat overblown -- but the underlying issue of news and data platforms has not. Read More »Amazon Publishing is launching a weekly romance podcast, "Kindle Love Stories." The podcast will include a discussion group at Goodreads, the reading-focused social network that Amazon recently acquired. Read More »PBS's MediaShift is launching a line of ebooks, starting with titles on self-publishing and cord-cutting. Executive Mark Glaser says he plans to release 10 to 20 books this year, depending on how well the first titles do. Read More »ABC is going to offer iOS users in New York and Philadelphia a 24-hour live stream of its programming this week. It's the first time a broadcaster has embraced live streaming. Read More »We are used to thinking of a "mass media" market made up of large newspapers and TV networks as the normal state of affairs in media, but what if that was just a historical anomaly? Read More »YouTube started to offer paid subscriptions to select channels this week. But are people actually going to pay for their YouTube videos? Read More »Follow paidContent:   |  |
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