In Step With the Times?

Time Warner Inc. is a leading Media and Entertainment Company engaged in providing Publishing, Broadcasting and Interactive Services. The business of the Company is broadly classified into five segments. The key segments include the Cable business that primarily comprises of interests in cable systems, providing video, high-speed data and voice services; the Filmed Entertainment business,

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Will Buyout Save Tribune?

Tribune Company is a media and entertainment company engaged in publishing, interactive media and broadcasting. The Company is the only media organization with newspapers, television stations and websites in the nation’s top three markets and reaches out to approximately 80 percent of U.S. households. Tribune publishes 11 popular daily newspapers including Los Angeles Times, Chicago

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Yahoo can kill Google AdSense for Content

I got an email from one of my readers, Todd, in response to the Viacom post: “Curious on your latest post – why do you lambast Google for ‘paying hopelessly little to publishers who use AdSense’, when it’s pretty clear from their financials that they pay out nearly 80% of ad revenue to adsense publishers?

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Online Ad Spend Beneficiaries

Last week, the Interactive Advertising Bureau reported that online ad sales rose 32% to a record $4.8 billion in the last quarter. That would put the estimated run rate at about $20-25 Billion for the year 2007. The Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that Internet advertising revenues for 2006 are estimated at $16.8 billion,

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The Pro-Am debate

And just as I wrote the Newspapers, Roll Up! piece, I read this one on Techmeme. Fascinating read. :: Are blogs a ‘parasitic’ medium? Commentary: Could the blogosphere survive without the reporting provided by newspapers and TV networks? Online pros tackle the question. By Robert Niles Posted: 2007-03-02 Over the past months, I’ve heard several

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eBooks Future

Harper Collins announces an investment in NewsStand this week to enhance its digital efforts. This draws attention of book lovers and passionate readers to the future of Books. Some of the more successful book projects recently have been the blockbuster Harry Potter series and the Da Vinci Code franchise, as well as the literary successes

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Book Publishing moves West?

Looks like there is more stir in the Book Publishing world, besides my earlier article on Peter Redford’s Browse experiment. Check out www.vidlit.com which Barb Rybka tipped me on – yet another experiment on how people foresee the evolution of books into some sort of a democratic new media publishing.

Open Source of Book Publishing?

I want to point my readers to Peter Redford’s experiment in creating a Publishing Empire by using the web as a democratic medium akin to Open Source … Browse Books, Inc. is a concept that Peter is experimenting with. A hypothetical press release could read … “Merged-media book publisher, BROWSE, announced today that it is

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