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Buy A 1-Year Nook NYT Subscription, Get The Nook Free

In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It’s the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription.

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Netflix Faces Higher Prices For HBO, Agrees To Doubled DVD Delays From WB

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is facing changes to its DVD business with two Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) programmers after months of CEO back-and-forth about the competition perceived and real between the subscription service and HBO.

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News Corp./Time Warner’s Prince Alwaleed Invests $300 Million In Twitter

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300 million for a strategic stake in the micro-bloging company.

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Digitas CEO Laura Lang To Head Time Inc.

Nine months after he fired Jack Griffin, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has finally filled the most prominent empty chair at the media company, appointing Laura Lang, CEO of Digitas since 2008, as CEO of Time Inc. Once again, he’s going outside the company to do it—and this time, he’s also going a step further by opting for digital advertising experience over publishing expertise.

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Time Warner Makes $1.4 Billion Endemol Bid

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) has made a takeover bid for Endemol, the debt-laden Dutch production company behind Big Brother and Deal or No Deal.

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CW Cuts Another Streaming Deal: Current Season Shows To Hulu, Hulu Plus

Gossip Girl is headed to Hulu Plus. On the heels of a past-season, library deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) that could be worth as much as $1 billion (if absolutely everything goes right), Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) and CBS (NYSE: CBS) will put current season episodes from the CW on Hulu and Hulu Plus. The five-year pact ups Hulu’s bragging rights as the digital hub for current primetime programming from broadcast networks and increases the appeal of subscription streaming service Hulu Plus.

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Time Inc: Director, Digital Solutions – Lifestyle Digital Group

Lifestyle Group Digital Solutions Director will be responsible for the development, creation and management of all marketing & sales material support for the fast growing Time Inc Lifestyle Digital (TILD) online advertising business, primarily focused on RealSimple.com and the MyRecipes … Continue reading

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