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Pandora Wins Appeals Court Ruling on Ascap Royalty Rates – NYTimes.com
“In Pandora Media’s second victory against the music industry in a week, a federal appeals court affirmed a judge’s ruling about royalty rates for the millions of songs represented by Ascap.”
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- Amazon’s Monopsony Is Not O.K. – NYTimes.com
- Paul Krugman’s Error Over Amazon’s Market Power – Forbes
- Andreessen Slams Krugman Over Amazon – Business Insider
- Paul Krugman Exposes Amazon Plot to Ship Right-Wing Books Faster – National Review Online
- The Politics of New Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos – The Atlantic
- Post names Frederick J. Ryan Jr. as new publisher – The Washington Post
- The Volokh Conspiracy And Washington Post’s Move To The Right | Blog | Media Matters for America
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The Internet’s Original Sin – The Atlantic
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Pick Of the Week:“I have come to believe that advertising is the original sin of the web. The fallen state of our Internet is a direct, if unintentional, consequence of choosing advertising as the default model to support online content and services. Through successive rounds of innovation and investor storytime, we’ve trained Internet users to expect that everything they say and do online will be aggregated into profiles (which they cannot review, challenge, or change) that shape both what ads and what content they see.” (by
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Amazon, a Friendly Giant as Long as It’s Fed – NYTimes.com
“Amazon believes that publishers take too much of the money in producing a book and add too little value. In traditional publishing, the highest royalty a writer could get was 15 percent of the book’s price. With e-books, the royalty is 25 percent of net revenue, but Amazon feels that is still not enough. Mr. Zandri gets 35 percent, and self-published writers who use Amazon’s platform get more.”
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