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• A discovery at Conde Nast: It's a good thing for print magazines to also have websites! "You gain a broader audience and more loyalty from your subscribers if you extend the experience into the Web," says Advance.net president Steven Newhouse. Who knew?
• A discovery in the Chicago Tribune: Search engines provide links to newspapers' news stories! "News aggregators, most notably Google Inc., put together summaries and lists of newspaper stories from around the world in a practice sometimes referred to as 'scraping.' Google and other aggregators pay publishers nothing," writes Trib reporter Robert Manor. Who knew?
Jeez, next you'll be telling us that advertising dollars are moving to the web, too. What crazy times we live in.
As Magazine Readers Increasingly Turn to Web, So Does Conde Nast [NYT]
Papers, Web Sites In Scrape on Stories [Chicago Tribune]
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I heard this rumor, so I can't say if it's for sure or what, but... apparently there are sites out there that scour this "Internet" for news stories, comment on them (sometimes even crack a joke or something) and link to them. Some of them even let readers comment. Right there, that could change everything.
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