Rupert Murdoch in China, arguing for paid content, and greater freedom for the press.
'The challenge of fusing past and present is real for media companies, and for China. Our aim must be to enhance the lives of our customers and citizens, and yet we find ourselves in the midst of an information revolution that is both exciting and unsettling. It is a digital revolution turning traditional business models upside down … traversing geographic, industrial, and media boundaries … and creating a new source of wealth, material and social, around the world.'
Marieke Hardy, who some may know from The First Tuesday Book Club on the ABC and also as a Melbourne Triple J presenter is going to launch a "mbook". Mbooks are where a story is sent by SMS over a number of days. This style of writing has become very popular in Japan.