Wednesday 3 July 2013

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First HBO & ESPN, now Time Warner Cable channels said to be coming to Apple TV

Apple is said to be making progress in bringing channels with Time Warner Cable content to its set-top box. But access will be restricted to the cable company's subscribers only.

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Andrew Sullivan may not have met his Daily Dish goal yet, but in many ways he has already won

Andrew Sullivan says that based on current conversion rates for his subscription-driven political blog The Daily Dish, he doesn't expect to hit his goal of raising $900,000 -- but despite that, he has still achieved a lot that is worth celebrating.

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New York City gets own domain name as ICANN approves “.nyc”

New York City residents can now sign up for websites ending in .nyc -- a move that pleased city leadership but should have trademark owners worried.

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Goodbye Google Reader, we’ll miss you

July 1 has come and gone, and so has Google Reader. Our post-mortem.

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J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore.com loses CEO as Redmayne heads back to HarperCollins

Virtual Harry Potter community and digital bookstore Pottermore.com is losing its CEO: Charlie Redmayne has been appointed CEO of HarperCollins U.K. So what does this mean for Pottermore?

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Six months in, Andrew Sullivan’s Dish hits 28,000 paid subs and revenues of $715k

Since politics blog The Dish went independent six months ago, it's raised $715,000 and has about 28,000 paid subscribers. That's close to its goal of $900,000 for the first year, but most of the subscriptions came very early on.

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Appeals court calls for “fair use” ruling in Google Books case

In a major new ruling in the Google Books case, the Second Circuit decertified a class action and told Judge Denny Chin to rule on whether Google's book scanning is fair use.

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Six digital publishing startups to watch

Want some different options for blogging and digital publishing? Here are six startups to check out.

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Welcome to the world’s largest book publisher: Penguin-Random House merger complete

Penguin and Random House have completed their merger, resulting in the world's largest book publisher: Penguin Random House.

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Thanks to the web, journalism is now something you do — not something you are

The fact that it is more difficult than ever to decide who qualifies as a "journalist" may make for a confusing media landscape, and it may trouble some professional journalists and media outlets, but in the long run we are better off.

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