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Penguin Random House blocked from acquiring Simon & Schuster (This week in books)

November 4, 2022 by Nathan Bransford 5 Comments

This week! Books! Massive, massive news for the publishing industry, and, in truth, for all US antitrust law as the DOJ successfully convinced Judge Florence Pan that Penguin Random House’s proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster would create a monopsony that would harm authors. This is particularly notable because antitrust precedent over the past 50 […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Florence Pan, Franklin Foer, Jeffrey Trachtenberg, Jessica Toonkel, P.N. Hinton, Penguin Random House, Stephanie Burt, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Twitter, Victoria Song

The Last Few Week in Books 1/4/12

January 4, 2013 by Nathan Bransford 4 Comments

As if my blogging hasn’t sporadic enough with the craziness of the holidays, next week is CES, land of 100″ TVs and 18-hour-work days! Yes, I am headed to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, where the devices of tomorrow are gawked at by the nerds of today. It’s always a lot of fun, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Fifty Shades of Grey, This Week in Books, Twitter

Is Social Media Like a Party?

September 22, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 45 Comments

Hofball in Wien – Wilhelm Gause Amid all the uproar over Facebook’s latest redesign of the newsfeed and some possibly huge pending announcements today (disclosure: links are to CNET, I work for CNET, and all views expressed herein are completely my own), there were some… well, murmurs in my feeds about Facebook having jumped the […]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Facebook, Social Media, Tumblr, Twitter

Should You Use RT or the Retweet Button on Twitter?

May 31, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 57 Comments

It’s a battle as old as time. Or, er, at least as old as when Twitter launched “New Twitter” last year. RT or the Retweet Button? In this corner, you have the Old School, the way people always used to pass along a fun or hilarious or awesome or interesting or all of the above […]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Social Media, Twitter

How to Use the Twitter @Reply

May 23, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 84 Comments

It’s 2011. We’re more than a decade into the 21st Century. Still no flying cars, but Twitter has been around for five years now. And it’s time we all banded together to make sure our friends and family members and followers and followees understand one of the most crucial and oft-misunderstood functions in social media. […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Social Media, Twitter

How to Use Twitter

January 20, 2011 by Nathan Bransford 106 Comments

I’ll be honest, I was a bit skeptical of The Twitter when it first appeared on the social media scene. “What’s that you say?” I asked. “140 characters? What can you do with that?” Turns out: A lot actually. Twitter is awesome. Awesome I tell you! It is the end of boredom, it is an […]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Social Media, Twitter

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