It’s all about newspapers today
So they held the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) conference and guess who got all the attention…an online search engine.
And so it goes for the beleaguered industry. PaidContent.org had the best spin on the events, highlighting among other things Google’s Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt’s word of advice to the masters of ink: you are consumer businesses so don’t piss off consumers. He was referring to attempts by the industry to clamp down on fair use.
Speaking of clamping down, they also highlighted that the AP is again poised to get more litigious, and cautioned that the industry should look no further than the music business before heading down the path of suing people for infringement. Good advice.
For more of their coverage on the NAA, click here.
