An eBookstore From Barnes & Noble, Curbing Theft With Social Media & A Reality Check For Newspapers // Links for 2009-07-20

by George Dearing on July 21, 2009 · View Comments

in Books, Content, Digital Strategy, Facebook, Internet, Journalism, Media, Newspapers, Online Communities, Social Media, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Word of Mouth (WoM), eCommerce, technology

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Barnes & Noble unveils store for digital books [Reuters]

More details on Barnes & Noble’s eBookstore launch. Big shot across the bow here: "Eschewing Amazon’s Kindle-only approach, the bookseller said its digital books could be read on the iPhone or iPod touch, Research in Motion Ltd’s Blackberry and most Mac and Microsoft Corp Windows laptops or desktop computers."

(tags: barnes+noble amazon kindle plastic+logic digital+distribution downloads ebooks ereaders)
Announcing the NYT API Tool [Open Blog - NYTimes]

Good to see publishers thinking about this kind of content portability. content.

(tags: NYT APIs web nytimes newspapers media developers code mashups)
Hub using Twitter, Facebook in hunt for stolen bikes [BostonHerald.com]

"Stolen Bikes Boston" using Twitter and Facebook for theft alerts.

(tags: social+media socialnetworking boston+herald community online internet)
Hey Newspaper Guys: Google’s Not Making Money From News | Techdirt

"So if you built a news aggregator, powered by journalists, this would somehow unlock the value and get to $1.5B in annual revenues?
NO…startups would be actually making a ton of money and chewing up the pop charts. Or Digg for that matter, or the Huffington Post." – [Chris Tolles,Topix]

(tags: newspapers topix aggregator publishing google online+content content+distribution)

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