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And for a brief moment, when the internet was still comprised mostly of all the right people, it was just the cool kids that were on there. [...]

But, of course, that window was short-lived. Now, we’re back to a world where everybody’s on the internet, and nobody cares.

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“It’s not as simple as ‘The Internet will replace print.’ The future is way more complicated than that.”

So, it's paper, digital, paper. Then?

(via Nieman Journalism Lab)

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Do people turn to piracy when the movies they want to watch are not available legally? We're building a dataset to help answer that question.

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DRM tends to simply punish the people who pay for things.

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"My stance on piracy is that piracy is bad for bad entertainment"

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Where my _____ are:

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While readers have enthusiastically embraced digital publishing, the book industry itself has continually dragged its heels.

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Cara ragazza di sedici anni che vuoi pubblicare, te la scrivo qui la cosa che avrei dovuto dirti.

Lascia perdere.

Ti spiego perché.

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But with the ISS circling the globe, which jurisdiction was Commander Hadfield in when he recorded the song and video?

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“I don’t want to publish, I want to write,” he tweeted. “Let me rephrase — I scarcely want to write, let alone publish…”

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I was beginning to worry about your attention span, even your intellig … wait a second, where are you guys going? You’re tweeting a link to this article already? You haven’t even read it yet!

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Essere fan di un artista ha sempre significato qualcosa di bi-direzionale: tu riesci a dire quello che vorrei dire ma non so come dirlo, mi apri scenari estetici, poetici e sonori nuovi, sonorizzi la mia esistenza – e io ti mantengo, perfino nel lusso.

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I’m going to give you a winning formula for founding a successful publishing startup: go back in time and start it in 2008. If for some reason that’s not possible, it’s not going to be easy.

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Sony [...] loses money on almost every gadget it sells.

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the “Buy now with 1-Click” button on Kindle pages would have to be relabeled “License now with 1-Click.” Amazon’s terms of service clearly state that [...] Kindle books can never be owned in the traditional sense.

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So any new protocol is a big deal. But Twitter is a protocol owned by a private company. That's even rarer. [...] Twitter feels to everyone like previous protocols. One forgets it's owned by a private company.

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It seems that either people took the ebook for free, or they paid around what we suggested for it. Almost nobody thought it was worth less than the suggested price.