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August 11th, 2010

The Wall Street Journal Supports Bigotry

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 3rd, 2009

Failed Experiments in the Future of Publishing: An Ongoing Series

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authonomy, ostensibly a sort of social networking site, where authors could submit 10,000 words or more from an unpublished book (or self-published) and the devoted and literate members of the authonomy…