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<title><![CDATA[Pete Nikolai]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[After nearly 10 years in sales for Thomas Nelson Publishers, I made the transition to the product development side in October 2000 to start and manage the Backlist Development department which creates products based on previously published content. In 2005 I took on additional responsibility for the continued development, improvement, and implementation of our publishing process across the company. In 2009, responsibility for driving sales of our current backlist products became a top priority.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lady Gaga Earns Slightly More From Spotify Than Piracy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:11:57 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Piracy is without a doubt, truly evil. It doesn’t help the artists, it robs them of their rightful revenue and is such a poor basis for a business model, it’s unworthy of consideration. New ad-supported streaming sites are not much better even though they offer a legal way to listen to free music. Top songs earn $300 per year for two million plays...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00:41 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google’s search engine. Microsoft’s interest is being interpreted as a direct assault on Google because it puts pressure on the search engine to start paying for content. But the biggest beneficiary of the tussle could be the newspaper industry, which has yet to construct a reliable online business model that adequately replaces declining print and advertising revenues. News Corp has been exploring online payment models for its newspapers and has taken an increasingly hard line against Google.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Barnes &amp; Noble’s Nook Sold Out for the Holidays - Bits Blog]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:42:55 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sony cannot guarantee that its new Daily Edition Reader would reach online buyers in time for Christmas. Now Barnes &amp; Noble says that preorders of its stylish new Nook ebook player have exceeded expectations, and that the company has sold out of its initial supply of devices. Amazon had these same problems last year but now appears to have gotten its manufacturing and supply chain in order. That leaves the Kindle as the most prominent wireless ebook player available for the holidays, although Sony is still selling two non-wireless Readers which must be plugged into PCs to download books...]]></description>
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