Aereo, a TV-on-the-go service that relies on small antennas, is getting a lot of legal attention. The bigger story should be how it is using economic breakthroughs in computing to offer a new form of TV. Read More »
How Netflix wants to change television forever
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A growing crop of vendors is trying to provide rental access to multiple ebooks for a monthly subscription, just like Spotify and Netflix. But what are the numbers that lay behind the idea’s success or failure? Read More »
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Chef Alton Brown on adapting the recipe to the social media age
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Redbox Instant won’t be ready until next year, after all
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Pop Secret just launched a year-long marketing campaign that will include apps meant to help people get more value out of services like Netflix, and have more fun with movie night at home. The reason? Orville Redenbacher’s has a tight grip on the theater popcorn biz. Read More »
Display ads such as “lose your belly” and “professors hate him” are discrediting the familiar model of online advertising which is based on slapping banner ads on websites. Now, one company has a solution to keep the same ad format — but replace the crummy content. Read More »
Amazon’s “Breakthrough Novel Award,” now in its sixth year, is being revamped for 2013: Rather than being published by big-six publisher Penguin and getting a $15,000 advance, the winner will get a contract with Amazon Publishing and a $50,000 advance. Read More »
U.K. literary agency Curtis Brown will publish over 200 titles exclusively through Amazon in a program designed to break U.K. authors into the U.S. market. Curtis Brown is working with Amazon “White Glove,” a little-known service aimed at literary agents. Read More »
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