MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book
E-books are cheaper to produce than print volumes, but consumers may not realize that expenses like overhead and royalties are still in effect, publishers say.
Network News at a Crossroads
As ABC News prepares to cut hundreds of jobs and with news available more places than ever, the future for the ABC and CBS news divisions is deeply insecure.
Condé Nast Is Preparing iPad Versions of Some of Its Top Magazines
The first products it will adapt for the digital reader will be Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour.
After Fumble, Microsoft Redoes Phone Software
Microsoft’s new mobile phone software, coming at the end of this year, offers “tiles” instead of icons, and has “hubs” for similarly themed functions.
Former Windows boss, Coinstar CEO join MOD board
When It Comes to Content, Amazon’s Kindle Won’t Be Undersold
Amazon.com is pushing newspaper, magazine and book publishers to guarantee that Kindle customers will get the lowest prices on electronic content. In return, publishers may get a bigger cut of the revenue.
Why Is The Business Model Of Buying Digital Content Failing?
The Steady, Efficient Decline Of Yahoo
Is copyright getting in the way of us preserving our history?
Google And The Law
We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change
By AL GORE
February 28, 2010
The truth about the climate crisis — inconvenient as ever — must still be faced.
A Star Is Reborn: How Hollywood Magicians Will Raise The Dead
The next generation of digital filmmaking will change Hollywood--and acting--forever.
HOULIHAN LOKEY – Media & Entertainment Weekly Newsletter – February 26, 2010