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Date: Thu May 07 2009 - 03:01:38 PDT

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    Amazon.com, Google Come to the Rescue of Newspapers, Journalism

    Amazon.com, Google Come to the Rescue of Newspapers, Journalism
    By: Nicholas Kolakowski
    2009-05-06
    <http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/
    Amazon-Google-Come-to-the-Rescue-of-Newspapers-Journalism-373547/>

    A shorter URL for the above link:

    <http://tinyurl.com/d7vo2z>

    Amazon.com and Google use different venues on the same day to suggest the
    future of journalism and news delivery. Amazon.com's Kindle DX, the next
    generation of its popular electronic reader, can deliver and display
    newspapers electronically. Meanwhile, in Congressional testimony, a Google
    executive discusses the form that news could start to take online.

    <snip>

    The Kindle DX, however, seems to have come not to bury print journalism,
    but to attempt to save it. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos announced during his
    presentation that his company had entered into an agreement through which
    three newspapers, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Boston
    Globe, will offer a cheaper version of the Kindle to customers who live
    outside the home-delivery range and who agree to a long-term electronic
    subscription.

    <snip>

    Also on May 6, Google decided to highlight its recent place in the
    evolution of news. Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search
    products and user experience, testified before the Senate Committee on
    Commerce, Science and Transportation on "The Future of Journalism."

    In her remarks, Mayer concluded, "Preserving robust and independent
    journalism at the national and local levels is an important goal for the
    United States. Google is doing its part by driving significant traffic to
    online news publishers, by helping them generate revenue through
    advertising, and by providing tools and platforms enabling them to reach
    millions of people."

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