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...America’s traditional media empires are spending tens of billions of dollars as they fight back against technology groups that have ravaged their business....
...Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School....
...It said the programme was “doing nothing more than making a political statement”....
...Platforms such as Facebook and Google now dominate the distribution of online news, while a new generation of digital publishers that includes BuzzFeed, Vox and Vice attracts large audiences....
...As we’ll show, digital goods are not like physical ones, and these differences matter....
...In the pre-digital era, roughly 80 per cent of books published lost money. Success therefore rested with the publishing of one or two bestsellers a year....
...A spin-off of Time Inc, valued by analysts at $3.2bn to $4.2bn will test investor appetite for publishing assets....
...“In the non-taxable business you want to make as much money as possible, because it provides the fuel to expand the mission,” he says....
...While the Berlin Wall is no more, Axel Springer may instead become a guiding light for the global newspaper industry as it grapples with a digital revolution....
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