X
    Categories: NewspaperShift

4 Minute Roundup: Kindle DX; Google vs. Newspapers

Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. This week I look at the unveiling of the new wide-screen Kindle DX aimed at newspaper, magazine and college textbook readers. Will people pay $489 for it? Plus, I look at the AP and News Corp.‘s moves against Google, with the AP playing hardball for running content in Google News. Meanwhile, Google is now under the antitrust microscope for its deal with book publishers and having its CEO Eric Schmidt on Apple’s board of directors. Plus, I ask “Just One Question” to Roger Fidler, program director for digital publishing at the Reynolds Journalism Institute.

Check it out:

Background music is “What the World Needs” by the The Ukelele Hipster Kings via PodSafe Music Network

Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:

Amazon’s big-screen Kindle DX makes its debut at News.com

Kindle DX: larger format may rekindle publishers’ hopes in the future at Times of London

Why Kindle DX Won’t Save Newspapers at PC World

Kindle-ing while newspapers burn at Reflections of a Newsosaur

AP’s Curley Has Fightin’ Words For Google at Forbes

Murdoch: Get Ready to Pay for Our Stuff Online-But Not on a Kindle at AllThingsD

Execs reveal why newspapers don’t block Google at News.com

Justice Dept. Opens Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Books Deal at NY Times

Few Match Google; Does That Make It a Monopoly? at Wall Street Journal

Here’s a graphical view of last week’s MediaShift survey results. The question was “What do you think about the swine flu coverage online?”

Also, be sure to vote in our poll about j-schools requiring iPhones on MediaShift!

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

View Comments (3)

  • I am pretty sure that Amazon is banking on the main feature that sets the New Kindle DX apart from other Ebook Readers is that it is Larger. It has the over 40 crowd looking at it because they will be able to see the text better. If you are not over forty then you will not appreciate that your vision up close will deteriorate. I always told my Dad that my vision would stay perfect. Boy was I wrong!
    Lots of people like to read on their computers but it will be much easier to just hold something like the size of a magazine when you are on the Fly. The Kindle DX is 11" x 8 1/2" and 1/3 of an inch thick. It even ha s a read aloud option which would come in handy while driving.http://kindle-dx-site.com

Comments are closed.