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'BusinessWeek' Doesn't Want Your Stinking Page Views

Whatever you do, don't try to boost BusinessWeek's web traffic! Turns out they don't want your stinking clickthroughs. As a recent story subject discovered, should you be inclined to push traffic their way via a direct "deep link" to a story, the McGraw-Hill magazine will even go so far as to ask you not to link to their site, and point you to their snooty user agreement. This is pretty much the dumbest thing we've heard in the last, oh, two hours or so, and after the jump, we'll tell you why. More »

6:34 PM on Fri Jan 25 2008
By Maggie
4,894 views, 17 comments

Latest by phukmags: The website staff only had their Christmas party two nights ago. Probably because there are some sort of discounts more »

Just now we hear that Wednesday will officially bring the announcement of the death of TimesSelect. Hooray! Congratulations, everyone!

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Tina Brown Wants To Get Paid For Her Hatchet Job

Following a recent Book Expo America luncheon, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown expressed the following concern about the industry to the Times:
Giving an author's book away for nothing on the Web as a way to market books seems a mirage to me. All it does is feed the hungry angles of journalists and bloggers who plunder it without any of the author's context or nuance and makes the reader feel there is nothing new to learn from the genuine article when it finally limps on its weary way to a book shop.
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11:45 AM on Mon Jun 4 2007
By abalk
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Latest by Pandora Spocks: She probably was a "vacuous schemer." Tina, of course is, um, well... more »