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Gawker’s Nick Denton: See, You Ingrates? This Is What We’re Trying to Do (Video)

The Blog King doesn't want to be the Blog King: He wants his sites to be as compelling as TV. Here's his promo reel.

AOL + Huffington Post Won’t Go to 11. But It Does Make Sense.

Former AOL CEO Steve Case is right to call out current AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's fuzzy math. But that doesn't mean this is a bad deal.

Honey, I Shrunk the E-Book: Amazon Slicing "Singles" for Kindle [UPDATED]

No reason not to do this: Amazon is carving out room on its digital shelves for "Singles"--essentially, mini e-books for its Kindle platform.Or, if you prefer, you can think of them as very long magazine articles.

Time Inc.’s Newest Product: A Magazine, Printed on Paper

Time Inc.'s newest product took nine months of meticulous work, carefully calibrated focus groups and a bunch of money. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the Internet, the Kindle or the iPad.

Macmillan CEO Defends E-Book Price Hike, Again

Cheers to Macmillan CEO John Sargent, who has taken to writing long open letters to his readers about changes in his company's e-book pricing model. Alas, the newest installment, on the company's blog, doesn't add much more to the discussion.

Condé Nast’s iPad Plan Gets Caught in the Apple-Adobe Crossfire

The Wired iPad app Condé Nast showed off this month looks great. But the chances that the publisher will give its other magazines the same treatment don't look promising--unless Apple and Adobe can figure out their Flash problem. Anyone want to bet on that?

Wired Comes to the iPad, Version 2.0

We’ve seen the iPad. And we’ve seen what some magazine people think their stuff might look like once it gets to the wonderdevice.But what will it really look like? Here’s a more informed guess, via Condé Nast’s Wired magazine, which has been working on an iPad-compatible version of the title for many months.

AT&T Has a Million Reasons to Love E-Books, and the iPad Is Bringing More

Interesting footnote in AT&T's earnings this morning: The carrier everyone loves to hate has quietly become the carrier of choice for e-book readers from Amazon, Sony and Barnes & Noble. They generated a million new subscriptions last quarter, and now the iPad will bring more.

The New York Times Officially Starts Construction on Its Pay Wall: “Metered Model” Coming 2011

After much consideration, the New York Times has finally decided to start charging readers for access to its Web site. But not for a while: The Times says it will introduce a "metered model" for NYT.com in 2011.

Is That a Real New York Times App or a Fake? Apple Doesn’t Want to Know.

Has the New York Times finally started charging people to read its news online? Not yet. But people who aren't the New York Times are using the paper's name and charging iPhone users to read the paper's stuff--with Apple's blessing. What gives?

The Secret Behind the Kindle’s Best-Selling E-Books: They’re Not for Sale

Want to sell a book to readers who own one of Amazon's Kindles? Better make sure the price is very, very low. As in zero dollars and zero cents.

Fighting Words! Time Warner Says Comcast/NBCU as Dumb as…Time Warner/AOL.

Just in case anyone thought Time Warner had any lingering interest in NBC Universal, this ought to put it to rest: Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes just compared the proposed Comcast/NBCU deal with the disastrous one his company made with AOL nearly a decade ago.