Paywalls Being Considered by Thousands of Newspapers (Good e-Reader)Morning Roundup
The essence of a paywall is giving 5-10 online articles away a month, for free, and then prompting them to subscribe digitally to read more. Thousands of Newspapers are evaluating buying into this new subscription model at the World Newspaper Congress in Bangkok.

DC Says Readers are Downloading 1 Million Comics Every Month (TechCrunch)
DC Entertainment is announcing two new technologies today that should give readers more opportunity to interact with their digital comics. The company is also sharing some numbers about the growth that it’s seeing on the digital side.

PwC: The US Consumer eBook Market Will Be Bigger Than the Print Book Market by 2017 (Paid Content)
Analyst firm PwC thinks that the U.S. trade ebook market will surpass the size of the print book market by 2017.

Court Says Copying Journal Articles To Show Prior Art in Patent Proceedings is Fair Use (Techdirt)
Here’s one that touches on both patents and copyrights. Last year, we wrote about how some academic journals were ridiculously claiming that law firms, who made copies of journal articles to submit to the US Patent and Trademark Office to show examples of prior art, were infringing on their copyrights.

Kindle Daily Deal: Almost a Miracle by John E. Ferling (and 3 others)

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