{"id":5935,"date":"2010-06-18T11:22:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2010-06-18T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T16:22:11","slug":"rupert-murdoch-makes-some-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5935","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch Makes Some Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks again to <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> for links to a digital news story that he&#8217;s been monitoring.\u00c2\u00a0The developments involve <strong>Rupert Murdoch<\/strong> making some moves to get a firm toehold in the\u00c2\u00a0growing\u00c2\u00a0digital newspaper industry and mark a <em>casualty<\/em> in the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Click <strong><a title=\"Murdoch Acquires Skiff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletpcreview.com\/default.asp?newsID=1458&amp;news=ereader+ebook+reader+news+corp+ipad\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong> for a story at <strong>TabletPCReview<\/strong> that details Murdoch&#8217;s purchase of <strong>Skiff, LLC,<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 and the e-reading platform developed by Hearst Corp. and designed to deliver premium content to tablet PCs, smartphones, eBook readers and netbooks. Murdoch recently started moving his online news\u00c2\u00a0services\u00c2\u00a0to a &#8216;paid content&#8217; format so the Skiff platform&#8217;s ability to protect brand identity fits the program.<\/p>\n<p>The other <strong><a title=\"The Skiff is Dead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/06\/15\/the-skiff-she-is-dead\/\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> takes you to <strong>CrunchGear&#8217;s <\/strong>eulogy for the<strong> Skiff Reader<\/strong>. Murdoch bought the Skiff software platform but passed on the <em>physical<\/em> device. Do you remember the Skiff Reader? I think it&#8217;s a beautiful piece of technology that will eventually return from the grave when digital publishing becomes secure enough that niche markets start to evolve that will need large format E Ink devices to deliver broadsheet content. The Skiff Reader\u00c2\u00a0was just ahead of its time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks again to Jorgen for links to a digital news story that he&#8217;s been monitoring.\u00c2\u00a0The developments involve Rupert Murdoch making some moves to get a firm toehold in the\u00c2\u00a0growing\u00c2\u00a0digital newspaper industry and mark a casualty in the eBook Revolution. Click here for a story at TabletPCReview that details Murdoch&#8217;s purchase of Skiff, LLC,\u00c2\u00a0 and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5935\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5935"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}