Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) is warning Hollywood movie studios about something they likely expected all along: the company is preparing to file for bankruptcy in the middle of next month. [LATimes] »  Newsweek is losing another top editor: Mark Miller, who…

Social publishing site Scribd is considering a number of premium products as an additional revenue stream to its ad sales and year-and-a-half-old book and document store, sources tell paidContent. A rep for the the San Francisco company confirmed that the company is working on creating products that it can charge…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  The month-long battle between Random House and literary agent Andrew Wylie seems to be over. The publisher is claiming victory, saying it has the rights to publish e-book editions of 13 classics books that the Wylie starting publishing under his…

Digital gave Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) a big sales boost from the previous quarter, but not enough to reverse revenue declines or prevent its net loss from deepening. The bookseller is currently mulling over a sale of the company and is embroiled in a proxy fight with activist investor…

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Barnes & Noble	Release		2.5%	-608%

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Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) is launching a video portal, DishOnline.com, as part of its own “TV Everywhere” push. [NYT] »  TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) is promising advertisers new measurements that combines traditional TV and online viewing audiences. Think TiVo’s service is…

There’s an intriguing thinkpiece in Wired UK’s September edition in which Russell Davies effectively argues that the shape of our content is a product of the media that carry it...

We knew Rupert Murdoch was enamored with tablets like iPad. Turns out, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). is such a big fan, it’s planning to launch a new national U.S. news title via iPad and mobile phone apps.

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  Funny, but wasn’t Demand Media always profitable, according to CEO Richard Rosenblatt? Well, as the IPO filing revealed, that really wasn’t the case. [WSJ] »  AppleTV is getting a makeover, starting with the name: the set-top box will be known…

Filling a CES booth with avid potential buyers and oohing-ahing spectators turned out to be a lot easier for Plastic Logic than actually shipping the highly anticipated and much-hyped Que e-reader. Instead of pretending it can deliver a high-end black-and-white e-reader that people will buy in an iPad world, Plastic…

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:»  After the recession caused a pullback in funding original online video production and distribution, the spigots appear to be opening again: case in point, My Damn Channel, whose shows include Easy to Assemble, will announce a $4.4 million funding. [NYT]…

It was pop-culture philosopher Marshall McLuhan who wrote: “All media come in pairs, with one acting as the ‘content’ of the other.” That assertion is true once again, now that a range of developers is pushing out digital products that depend on paying homage to physical-media forebears…

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) says the company will start evaluating “strategic alternatives,” including a possible sale of the company, in an effort to boost the value of its stock price. In a statement, the bookseller says its board came to this decision after feeling that its shares were significantly…

Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital began selling an “enhanced e-book” of Rick Perlstein’s best-selling doorstop, Nixonland, in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iBookstore and on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) on Thursday. The title, which was already available in an Amazon Kindle version, represents the first test of whether Apple can challenge…

Today’s launch of an Android e-reader app marks Barnes & Noble’s first foray onto that platform—and a shift in strategy. Instead of “BN eReader for iPad” or “BN eReader for PC,” its e-reader apps and software are moving to the Nook brand. That will put Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS)…

This is a phenomenal week to be covering the publishing industry. Tuesday, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released its quarterly earnings. Big surprise, another record-breaking quarter for the folks in Cupertino. A few billion here, a few billion there, blah, blah. How amazing is it that we’re not really surprised by such…

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) still isn’t saying how many Kindles it’s selling, but that isn’t keeping the company from shouting how well it’s doing. The latest specifics and non-specifics from the company: “The growth rate of Kindle device unit sales has tripled” since it cut the price of the Kindle 2…

The e-reader market is moving faster than Tour de France cyclists on an oil-slicked hill. We’ve already seen a few crashes—iRex filing for bankruptcy, Spring Design suing Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), the Plastic Logic Que stuck in limbo—and we’re sure to see more. The big question as we head…

The remaking of the Kindle continues, this time with a new look, price and display for the super-sized Kindle DX. The 9/7” screen size remains the same, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says a new, high contrast e-ink display offers 50 percent more contrast for a lower price. The 22 percent…

LibreDigital, the heavily backed electronic book and newspaper distributor, is buying e-commerce technology from News Corp.-owned HarperCollins, which it says will allow it to offer a “complete end-to-end solution for publishers looking to accelerate sales of e-books and digital content.” LibreDigital has historically helped publishers deliver their content to e-readers…