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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[My only question is will it come with a cardboard cut-out arm of my very own? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[New Reformation]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 7th 2009 10:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[In other words, the 5 largest publishers will be banding together to keep their content off 3rd party devices like the Kindle and Nook, and exclusively available on their own devices, where they can charge more and keep the content locked down.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 7th 2009 10:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[@itchyeyes <br><br>Yeah what a bunch of wankers trying to be innovative and keep there businesses afloat by creating a new revenue stream because they know their current one is end-dated. You're completely right.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ethos]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 8th 2009 3:29AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Federaly  - do you work for Murdoch?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[krs360]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 8th 2009 5:38AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[Probably a GOOD thing.  I want digital magazines and newspapers sooner rather than later.  I'm done with wasting all that paper.  And I'd much rather have a standard that hardware manufacturers can support which works across multiple devices, rather than a world where Microsoft and Apple and Amazon all have their own DRM's for digital works that are incompatible with each other.  <br><br>But hey, lets see how this pans out.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fanfoot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 7th 2009 10:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Fanfoot <br>Actually, just about everyone, with the exception of Amazon, seems to be coalescing around epub.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 8th 2009 12:04AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[Unless the plan is to pull their heads out of their asses and embrace the web model, then there is no plan to succeed. Look at the lessons of history. You cant fly some harebrained scheme against the tide of the web and expect it to be successful. <br><br>These guys will continue to get beat down until they file for chapter 11 like ziff davis did recently. <br><br>Good luck "old school" publishing giants. The rain forest will be better off without you....<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[junk]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 7th 2009 10:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[I see that Rupert Murdoch, billionaire tyrant, has struck again.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Samurai Jack]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 7th 2009 11:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[In other words, they are making their own tablet, goodbye Apple tablet.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Biffle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 7th 2009 11:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[Most people do not have enough pixels available to properly read a digital publication.  We need roughly 1280x1600 pixels per page before people will enjoy a digital publication similar to a magazine.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Davenport]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 7th 2009 11:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why so big? A magazine page could easily fit into half of that, which is what we have now. These publishers just need to work on making their publications better for a computer screen...something Engadget failed to do by introducing Times New Roman font with their new layout. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[seriousam7]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 7th 2009 11:43PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[i dont read their magazines when im sitting in a waiting room and they are right there...<br><br>...what makes them think im going to buy this kinda stuff from them?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[harbingerofdoom]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 7th 2009 11:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[@harbingerofdoom <br><br>You may not like eating at Wendy's but they still have the right to stay open and serve other customers...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Scrip]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 8th 2009 12:01AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[So they are jumping over Apple? Seems like this is the first time someone will beat them in their own innovation.<br><br>Could it be all those rumors we believed to be about Apple were about heir own efforts?  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ridgecity]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 8th 2009 12:19AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[Interesting.<br><br>As mentioned, I don't read that crap now, no way in hell I'm going to pay for it and a crippled tablet.too.<br><br>These fools are going to die a slow, stupefying, agonizing death, they're the new General Motors.<br><br>What we all need are about 3-4 single purpose tablets/e-readers and a smartphone, notebook, desktop and a netbook, yeah, that's the ticket.<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pliablemoose]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 8th 2009 12:54AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[People are still consuming contents, they are just doing it on a engadget/gizmodo format.  It's not very commuter friendly.  I believe there is a big market for the colored ebook.<br><br>It could work every well if you can subscript comic through them. Well I would even pay for manga subscription.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tino]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 8th 2009 1:12AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[haha. there are almost as many tag as there are words in the article.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bolezhinkov]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 8th 2009 2:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[At least they are making an effort.  The music industry just hired lawyers.<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[rotarydialz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 8th 2009 2:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Major media giants to form joint venture for digital future, says WSJ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/major-media-giants-to-form-joint-venture-for-digital-future-say/</guid><description><![CDATA[Anybody else see the irony of this being on the WSJ, a partly subscription based news journal?  Do these companies really think that a propriety piece of hardware will make people more willing to pay for news content?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kal326]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 8th 2009 10:37AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
