Latest selection of the best stuff I’ve seen lately across the ScratchPaper focus areas of Media, Digital Media and Publishing, including items on whether the NYTimes is innovating whether Amazon is evil, and how Bill Gates saved a business classic that had gone out of print. Enjoy.
Media & Digital Media
- A few accumulated thoughts on media
- 3 Massive Problems with Digital Publishing Today
- The New York Times Innovation Report
- Internal innovation report says the New York Times needs to up its digital game or else
- Aereo Case Will Shape TV’s Future
- The Cloud Industry Needs Aereo to Win. But Consumers Need Something Better
- Aereo’s CEO on the future of Netflix, TV sports and the public airwaves
- Twitter and Facebook Wield Little Influence on TV Watching
- Netflix data didn’t feed House of Cards’ success, ‘the bliss of ignorance’ did
- Get Ready for the Content Arms Race
- New cash, new questions for Business Insider
Publishing
- Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed
- Amazon Blocks Orders From Hachette as Industry Tensions Boil Over
- If you love books then you should be rooting for Amazon, not Hachette or the Big Five
- Guess what: Some people are on Amazon’s side in Amazon vs. Hachette
- Is Amazon Really the Devil?
- Can the publishing industry do a better job of managing change than the music industry did?
- Apple, Amazon and the uncertain future of the book startup
- Why Books Stink
- How Bill Gates resurrected his favorite business book of all time
- Book revenues are up — but without ebooks, they’d be plummeting
- Self-published ebook site Smashwords expands to more libraries in deal with Overdrive
- 3 Massive Problems with Digital Publishing Today
- Tom Weldon: ‘Some say publishing is in trouble. They are completely wrong’
- The conservative book industry isn’t dead, it’s just embarrassing
Literary
- Why Books Stink
- If you love books then you should be rooting for Amazon, not Hachette or the Big Five
- Book revenues are up — but without ebooks, they’d be plummeting
- Tom Weldon: ‘Some say publishing is in trouble. They are completely wrong’
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