ebooks judgingFarewell, GigaOM: Tech News Powerhouse Shutting Down (Mashable)
San Francisco-based tech blog GigaOm, a widely-respected name in the industry for nearly a decade, is shutting down for want of funding, according to its founder.
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How to Unplug Your Kids Despite Schools Pushing Tech with Common Core (MediaShift)
The American Society of Pediatrics’ most recent guidelines for media use among children note that lots of kids are spending seven hours or more a day looking at a screen.
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So What’s Up (and Down) with eBooks? (Dear Author)
So now that Hachette and Amazon have settled their epic feud, and we’re seeing the results of publisher negotiations with the retailer, we seem to be witnessing the revenge of traditional publishers when it comes to digital book pricing.
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Another Newspaper Paywall Bites the Dust (Techdirt)
The latest to make this discovery: the Toronto Star, which has announced that its paywall is going away. Notably, it was the newspaper’s own advertisers who helped management make this decision…
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