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Barry Diller told Bloomberg TV's Betty Liu that he believes people will pay for media content in the future, and that paywalls will work eventually. "[Free content] will end because now so many people are used to paying for applications, whether they pay 99 cents or whether they pay for a tune, or they pay 99 cents to play Solitaire, or $4.95 to do this or $2.95 to do that, or one kind of one stop, very simple to do," Diller said.

A Do Not Mail Registry would mean more troubles for magazine publishers since they couldn't send subscription solicitations to anyone on the list.

Conventional wisdom says that entrepreneurs who start a Web-based business will do so with VC money. Read enough stories of Internet ventures that enjoy lucrative exits in the millions (in some cases billions) of dollars, and it's easy to assume that the only path to success is to begin by securing deals with investors who are far less interested in helping a start-up build a substantial brand as they are in realizing a return as quickly as possible. Bootstrapping simply isn't sexy anymore. But for many start-up publishers, bootstrapping is a way of life, and VC money isn't an option.

"How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? "The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for a Google or Yahoo! or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes [for] free is nuts!" - Edward Whitacre, Jr., CEO of the telephone company SBC (commenting on Google in 2005)

Excellent read from  book designer "I want to look at where printed books stand in respect to digital publishing, why we historically haven't read long-form text on screens and how the iPad is wedging itself in the middle of everything. In doing so I think we can find the line in the sand to define when content should be printed or digitized. This is a conversation for books-makers, web-heads, content-creators, authors and designers. For people who love beautifully made things. And for the storytellers who are willing to take risks and want to consider the most appropriate shape and media for their yarns."

Perhaps the most revealing thing about the "Dumb Money" story, in fact, is that everyone involved -- author, agent and publisher -- saw it as an experiment, the kind of small-scale trial run that a late-adopting industry needs to do a lot more of.

"Back in October, the startup tech firm Silent Circle ruffled governments' feathers with a "surveillance-proof" smartphone app to allow people to make secure phone calls and send texts easily. Now, the company is pushing things even further-with a groundbreaking encrypted data transfer app that will enable people to send files securely from a smartphone or tablet at the touch of a button. (For now, it's just being released for iPhones and iPads, though Android versions should come soon.) That means photographs, videos, spreadsheets, you name it-sent scrambled from one person to another in a matter of seconds." In an age where we can pretty much assume we're being monitored 24/7, is this a good thing? Or is this another tool for some really terrible people to do some really terrible things, but now with an added layer of privacy?

Why is publishing doing better than other "culture Industries"

Many people have missed key opportunities in their life because they failed to see the power of now. Many people in the world fail to live in the now because they prefer to be fear of what they do...

Now who exactly will publish the fictitious biography of Kim Jong Eun? And how do I get a copy? 

Article on how things like spatial context help people remember things (such as a location of an article in a newspaper), compared with a digital reader that tends to convey a sense of limitless or infinity.

The clash between what e-book retailers are doing and what the e-reading audiences want.

Is listening to an audiobook "reading" the book? Why do we tend to think that one form is "true" reading?

The "About Us" section for this restaurant features a word cloud instead of the traditional paragraph descriptions. I've never come across this before, but I like it! More restaurants should do this. I'm not sure where the words for the cloud come from- the owners or reviews.

Andrew Sullivan commentary on the publishing industry.

Publishers Weekly's Fire assessment.

If you are considering a Kindle Fire, you may want to check out this new review.

Great piece on the cost of e-books and the dangers posed by Amazon.

If your novel isn't by someone famous, won't receive a star in Publishers Weekly, or can't generate a slavish "At Home" featurette in That Other East Coast Newspaper, how do you get someone in the media to notice it? Swag, of course.

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