Definitely some interesting thoughts on how the Internet is affecting newspapers and book publishers. But the real question is how they are going to work with the changing technology?

The Internet has undercut the businesses of newspapers, book publishers and magazines for years and now these medium are looking for ways to fight back. Web search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, collect headlines and photos for their users without compensating the publishers a cent, according to the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), which announced Tuesday that it intends to “challenge the exploitation of content” by the Googles and MSNs of the Web. [Read the rest]

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