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"Stanza, a book reading application offered in Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPhone App Store since July, has been downloaded more than 395,000 times and continues to be installed at an average rate of about 5,000 copies a day... In other words, Apple may have inadvertently sold more e-readers than any other company in the nascent digital book market. ...

Argues that newspapers will need to get smaller and more focused on establishing trust-based influence. Interesting.

Maureen Dowd NYT Op-Ed piece on the outsourcing of local newspaper journalism to India. As if newspaper employees needed any more bad news.

Of course we talked about this in class, but what I find more interesting than Oprah's endorsement is all the comments at the end of the article. Several posters don't even acknowledge Oprah's new-found interest, but are just extolling Kindle's virtues. My guess is that, until the Kindle's price is a little lower, those folks who just like to get what Oprah has might not go for it. But the more "techie" folks might get one -- or already have one -- regardless of what Oprah thinks.

Article about papers leaving AP, as Michael mentioned in class yesterday for industry news.

Former editor of the New York Times Book Review, John Leonard, has passed. "The comma seemed to have been invented expressly for him."

Google's goal is to manage all of the world's information and, in 300 years, will be able to sort and index 100% of today's information about the world.

Blog entry discusses new book about Google

The Atlantic summed up this article better than I could: "A former managing editor of The Chicago Tribune probes the collapse of the newspaper industry and tries, mostly in vain, to find hope for the future of journalism." If you care about newspapers, grab a box of tissues before reading.

FYI!

EReaders are becoming increasingly popular, but one of the major drawbacks is the current limitation on the amount of digital content available. Plastic Logic plans to amass one of the largest collections of content available for an eReader.

Brief, but interesting take on making money online with free content or a free/paid hybrid.

PW talks about O'Reilly's TOC conference and where the publishing industry may be heading in the near future. What new business models will emerge? Who will be the big players?

Something from the music industry. Many of you may have heard about iTunes getting the labels to agree to DRM-free music in exchange for a new princing structure. But things are not going so smoothly in upgrading to DRM-free music. Looks like iTunes could use a solid analysis of its system architecture to see where the bottleneck is.

After 149 years and 311 days, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition on February 27, 2009.

Ever wish you could print out your RSS feeds and read them like a newspaper? FeedJournal is a new service that lets you convert RSS feeds into printable PDF files.

In class we talked about making things catchy or coming up with inventive strategies for attracting customers that are constantly bombarded by "cool." I tihnk this relatively new search engine might be on to a way to give customers a reason to use their product over the other guys that are trying to do the same thing.

A little bit of history from the Sunday New York Times Book Review

H-P, Dell and others are plotting strategies and developing devices to rival Apple's attention-grabbing iPad, hoping to capitalize on new interest in a category of gadgets that was all but moribund." />