21 September 2011

"French Papers Team Up to Break Apple Stranglehold" - NYTimes.com

I can imagine a lot of corridor conversations about this development in Vienna. Note that one of the people who will be in Vienna - Ken DOCTOR - is mentioned on the second page of the story. He notes one example of how media company cooperation in the face of Google did not work out, and we should not forget that there are many more, including one of the first - the failure almost 20 years ago of the New Century Network in the US. That included something similar to the French grouping - most of the big newspaper groups except The New York Times, as best I recall. Note also the last graf of this story. Is it true?

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