August 11th, 2010
from thad@thefutureofpublishing.com <thad@thefutureofpublishing.com> to onlinejournal@wsj.com, wsj.ltrs@wsj.com, d.bernard@wsj.com, k.sells@wsj.com, a.murray@wsj.com, MainStreet@wsj.com, julia.angwin@wsj.com date Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:48 PM subject Cancel subscription immediately To Editors and Managements of The Wall Street Journal, I have valued your paper for decades, and faithfully subscribed online for perhaps ten years. It was always expensive but I did not…
July 2nd, 2010
In return, my best wishes to The Times and The Sunday Times, founded in 1788. Now owned by Rupert Murdoch, who purchased the paper from the Thomson Corporation in 1981, this is the launch of his born-again content-is-more-important-than-advertising initiative.
July 3rd, 2009
HarperCollins Publishers, one of the largest English-language publishers with sales over $1 billion, is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Last fall it launched authonomy, ostensibly a sort of social networking site, where authors could submit 10,000 words or more from an unpublished book (or self-published) and the devoted and literate members of the authonomy…