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How Ebooks Turn Content Into Cash
The Media Briefing
Book publishers may have had little choice but to adopt ebooks, but they have been wary of them, in particular the threats from lower prices and piracy. But for news publishers, ebooks offer a far less risky way to turn content into cash - leveraging archive material at minimal expense opens up new revenue streams. And the potential market is huge: Britons bought GBP84 million worth of ebooks in the first half of 2012, according to the Publishers' Association.
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Leveson: Bloggers, Too, Must Follow Law
Press Gazette
Mainstream journalistic standards could plunge if laws are not enforced against bloggers, Tweeters and websites, Lord Justice Leveson warned today. In an address as part of his Australian lecture tour, the media ethics inquiry judge said journalists might be tempted to cut corners or break the law to "steal a march" on their online competitors. Lord Justice Leveson told the University of Melbourne there was a "pernicious and false" belief that the law did not apply to the internet.
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MSN Celebrity Debuts In UK, On Continent
M&M Global
Microsoft is expanding its MSN offering across Europe with the launch of a brand new online channel, called MSN Celebrity. The new channel will offer the latest news, features, opinion and gossip around some of the world's most talked about celebrities. Features include global and local daily news and video, celebs caught on camera, and best and worst dressed celebs.
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Frances' Owni Crowdsourcing Funding Ideas
Journalism.co.uk
French news site Owni, which specialises in data journalism, is inviting users to contribute funding ideas to help maintain the site. The website has launched a wiki inviting users to contribute their own ideas about how Owni can find additional revenue, along with a hashtag #ownioupas. Owni's home page says: "Owni is not closing down. Owni is for sale".
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Denmark's Trustpilot Builds Etailer Rating Platform
PaidContent.org
The Danish firm has been building a platform for consumers to review independent online retailers. Now it wants to break America. But does Trustpilot need to work hard on improving its own visibility, or just syndicate its reviews to Google? But, as it tries to unlock the large US market, the outfit may nevertheless still face challenges at home. Despite operating in the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands and Italy, it is far from well known.
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Tweeting Benedict Gathers Million Followers
The Telegraph
His Holiness began the morning with around 600,500 followers on his English-language @pontifex account on the social network, and tweeted for the first time at 10.30am BST with a message of peace and thanks. Pope Benedict XVI added an average of 2,000 new followers a minute after his first tweet (above) was read around the world, bringing his English-language online acolytes to almost 700,000 within an hour.
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The Beeb Marks 15 Years Of BBC Online
Digital Spy
Ralph Rivera, director of Future Media explained in a blog: "Innovation is at the heart of the BBC and has been since its inception. "From when the BBC opened its first radio station in 1922 and launched the world's first regular television service in 1936 few could have imagined just what impact broadcasting would make on our everyday lives." He added: "Just as radio and TV did before it, the digital revolution has fundamentally changed how our audiences access news, information and programmes.
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