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Sir William Garrow And The Power Of BBC Prime Time

A new entry in Amazon’s Hot Future Releases in Business, Finance & Law. In at number nine, and likely to rise and rise in the coming weeks, is Sir William Garrow: His Life, Times and Fight for Justice by John Hostettler and Richard Braby. In

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As Print Dwindles, can Amazon Re-Kindle?

Last week it was Apple’s iPhone, this week it is Amazon’s Kindle. Different mobile device, same question.  As The Independent puts it hopefully in today’s business section: “Kindle to save papers?” You see, Amazon’s e-reader is coming to the UK. Company founder

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Chris Brown, JK Wedding Entrance Dance And Unintended Consequences

The trouble with applying offline rules to online business is that you fail to account for new models. The music industry has fought perhaps the longest, and most misguided, battle of this sort. In an effort to protect what has

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Is Amazon About To Sell Adverts In E-books?

While the news media wrestles with paywalls, micropayments and subscriptions after 15 years of ‘free’, Amazon looks set to add another revenue stream to its potentially lucrative e-books business. A big hat tip goes to David Weir writing on the

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Jon Bernstein: I am a digital media consultant, writer and editor and this is my personal blog.

Previously, I was digital director / deputy editor at the New Statesman, the multimedia editor at Channel 4 News, launch editor of Channel 4 FactCheck, editor-in-chief at Directgov and editor-in-chief of silicon.com.

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