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Founded by journalist Rafat Ali in 2002, paidContent chronicles the economic evolution of digital content that is shaping the future of the media, information and entertainment industries.
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Amazon now lets self-published authors sell print books in Europe
Many self-published authors are still turning to literary agents to sell foreign rights to their books. In a move that could cut some agents out, Amazon now allows those authors to distribute their print books through European Amazon sites for free.
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The Morning Lowdown 5-17-12
Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning: paidContent 2012: Just a few days to go (.
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A new way to make six figures on the Web: teaching
Miguel Hernandez, the founder of a company specializing in explanatory videos for startups, said he spent about three hours a day for three weeks making an online video course explaining his craft. But, last year, that one video series earned him nearly six figures on the online course platform Udemy.
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Now Pinterest emails users asking them to comeback often
Now that Pinterest has a big new investor and a $1. 5 billion valuation, it needs to keep users engaged.
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Russia’s state piracy monitor could empower copyright owners
In a land whose leading social network includes baked-in file-sharing, the government seems keen on encouraging a legal digital media ecosystem.
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How mobile networks are policing the web — badly
While the British government considers forcing internet providers to censor the web, it turns out that many European mobile operators are happily acting as censors themselves already — and mistakenly blocking lots of legitimate sites along the way.
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Confirmed: Pinterest is taking $100 million and will do e-commerce
Now two things are more clear about the fast-growing social pinboard curation service – a business model and a valuation.
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Social gaming to gambling: states inch forward
When will the floodgates open? It feels like an eternity that the casino industry and makers of games like Zynga Poker have been waiting for states to flip a legal switch that will let them turn virtual gaming into real gambling.
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Will Facebook adapt to mobile or will mobile adapt to Facebook?
We all know Facebook needs to become a force in mobile advertising, but just how much of a force? If Facebook were to replicate the success of its desktop ad business on mobile it would account for a healthy chunk of the entire world’s current mobile ad spend. And if it sticks with its planned approach to mobile ads it would need to create a whole new mobile advertising sector from scratch.
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What’s next for Pinterest: $1 billion valuation and a business model?
Image-sharing site Pinterest is reportedly close to announcing a new funding round that values it at over $1 billion. A social commerce company is also investing in the company for the first time, The Next Web says, citing an unidentified source.
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