Archive for October 29th, 2008
Now let’s combine the last two posts: What Google deal could mean for the Newspaper industry - Or my plan to rescue the news business
By Tom Teicholz at 29 October, 2008, 11:09 am
In today’s New York Times, David Carr’s Media column discusses the problems with the newspaper business along the lines I’ve mentioned in my earlier post — the problem being no that people don’t read the news — jsut that that they don’t do so in newspaper form, and don’t do so by buying a newspaper.
That [...]
GOOGLE makes BOOK Deal
By Tom Teicholz at 29 October, 2008, 10:50 am
Several years ago, Google began a controlversial program of scanning or digitizing books. They began by doing so with public domain books, and then library collections.
They were sued by indiividual authors, publishing companies and the Author’s Guild. Google for their part insisted that they were hewing to their credo of “Do No Harm” — and [...]
Bad day for Newsprint
By Tom Teicholz at 29 October, 2008, 10:42 am
Yesterday the Christian Science Monitor announced that it would cease publication of its weekday paper –after a centry of doing so.
Time Inc is laying off 600 employees.
The LA Times is laying off another 75 or so — the newsroom is half the size it once was.
The Newark Star Ledger is cutting 405 of its staff
TV [...]