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Musings on whether we're losing something really vital by getting sucked into the digital world.

Pay Wall Drives Newsday.com Traffic Down, Paper Says According To Plan - 12/11/2009

LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood trade newspaper Variety is putting its Web site behind a "pay wall" starting Thursday – reserving its online content for paid subscribers and hoping its advertisers will stick around despite the smaller Internet audience. Variety plans to shut off free access gradually, asking one in 10 visitors for a user name and password that will be sent to paying subscribers.

Barnes & Noble's electronic book reader bears a striking resemblance to Amazon's Kindle, adding some useful features; but it falls achingly short in the critical area of speed.

The company had hoped to have the e-book reader available in its highest-volume stores this week, but online demand is outstripping supply. "> <!-- script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://i.cmpnet.com/informationweek/js/tab.js">&lt;/script --> <!-- <script src='http://i.cmpnet.com/ads/graphics/as5/redirect/tw_mcafee_081021.js'>&lt;/script> --> http://www.informationweek.com/rss/all_st

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Interesting essay on what's happening to reading now that most of it is click-and-skim....

More people are turning to the Internet for their arts consumption...seems to me that this might have implications for 1) people working in the arts (they have to market themselves too), and 2) people who want to do e-projects of various sorts (there is an audience for more complex online projects).

Simon & Schuster plans to postpone the release of 35 e-book titles by four months. This is in part attributed to the sales of Stephen King's "Under the Dome" in which the publisher noticed that e-book sales were cannibalizing hardcover sales.

A private school in Toronto is replacing its textbooks with the Sony e-reader.

Revenue in the professional/trade segment and the college segment are up at John Wiley.

CNN.com is investing in Outside.In, a start-up that feeds neighborhood blogs and other local news to the Web sites of larger media outlets." />

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With Nielsen's update to its @Plan system, some big sites are getting a shock and seeing wide swings from what the old data said about their audiences.

Online Pay Walls Will Hurt Newspapers - 12/07/2009