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CHAPTER 16: Where Is the Wave Taking
Old Media?
296
”If we were having breakfast“: author
interview with Joe Schoendorf, May 10, 2007.
297
I put America’s Home Videos
”: author interview with Robert Iger, May 17,
2007.
297
“Sometimes you have to guess”: author
interview with Bill Campbell, October 18, 2007.
297
“The world is
moving”: author interview with Barry Diller, January
10, 2008.
297
consumers “will happily go
along”: author interview with Irwin Gotlieb, June 2,
2008.
297
Yossi Vardi, the Israeli
entrepreneur: author interview with Yossi Vardi,
February 28, 2008.
298
Free an
“inevitability”: Chris Anderson, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Hyperion,
2009.
298
This is the
answer: Jeff Jarvis, What Would Google Do?, HarperCollins,
2009.
298
“more than 1 billion
clicks”: testimony of Marissa Mayer to hearing of the
Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications,
Technology and the Internet, May 6, 2009.
298
total U.S. ad
spending: Myers Advertising and Marketing Investment
Insights.
299
Newspaper ad revenues: Zenith Optimedia,
March 2009.
299
“Even Wired Editor”: Chris Anderson,
Free: The Future of a Radical Price,
Hyperion, 2009.
299
In a February 2009 Time
cover story: Walter Isaacson, “How to Save
Newspapers,” Time, February 16,
2009.
299
The warning was given
life: Nat Ives, “Time Inc. Helps Out Future of 3-D,”
Advertising Age, March 13,
2009.
300
page one of the Los Angeles
Times : Stephanie Clifford, “Front of Los Angeles
Times Has an NBC Article,”’ New York
Times, April 10, 2009.
301
“Wrestling had bigger
audiences”: author interview with Robert Pittman,
February 29, 2008.
301
“I think people are
getting”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, June
9, 2008.
301
Each of the
40,000: author interview with Scott Heiferman,
January 25, 2008.
301
“one quarter of
CBS‘s”: author interview with Quincy Smith, September
16, 2008.
302
The online dating
service: author interview with Barry Diller, March 3,
2009.
302
Mary Meeker
predicts: author interview with Mary Meeker, January
23, 2009.
302
By mid-2008
China: “China’s Internet Cafes Still Crucial to
Online Game Growth,” VentureBeat.com, August 17,
2008.
302
“PiperJaffray
projected”: Matt Richtel and Bob Tedeschi in the
New York Times, April 6,
2009.
302
“we want to get credit card
numbers”: author interview with MarcAndreessen, March
27, 2008.
302
“the stealth
device”: author interview with Ivan Seidenberg,
October 30, 2008.
302
“social network
traffic”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, June
11, 2008.
303
“We made one really big
mistake”: author interview with Dr. John Hennessy
June 9, 2008.
303
“A lot of people believe
that”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, September
15, 2008.
303
“my current view of the
world”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, April 1,
2009.
303
“newspaper ad
dollars”: from the Web site of the Newspaper
Association of America.
304
Many students clamor:
e-mail exchange with Ernest Sotomayor, December 7,
2008.
304
“many of our
students”: e-mail exchange with Nicholas Lemann,
September 4, 2008.
304
“take the New York
Times”: financial data from Ken Auletta, “The
Inheritance: Can Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Save the Times—and Himself?,” New
Yorker, December 19, 2005.
305
“the kinds of
stories”: author interview with Larry Page, March 25,
2008.
305During the
wrenching transition to print: Clay Shirky blog,
March 13, 2009.
306
“Sell it!”:
author interview with Marc Andreessen, June 9,
2008.
307
more than a few papers
“will disappear”: Rupert Murdoch speech at the D
Conference attended by author, May 28, 2008.
307
He wrote that
newspapers: Michael Hirschorn, “Get Me Rewrite!”
Atlantic Monthly, December 2006.
309
“Apple’s iTunes”: author interview with
Eric Schmidt, October 8, 2007.
309
“for newspaper
companies”: author interview with Andrew Lippman,
February 10, 2009.
309
“Can you put it behind a
wall”: author interview with Marc Andreessen,
February 20, 2009.
310
Attorney General Eric
Holder: Randall Mikkelsen, “U.S. Law Chief Open to
Antitrust Aid for Newspapers,” Reuters, March 18,
2009.
310
In 2009, three longtime
media executives: Richard Perez-Pena, “Plans for a
Paid Online Media Service,” New York
Times, April 15, 2009.
310
an online
publication: Jack Shafer, “Hello, Steve Brill, Get Me
Rewrite,” Slate.com, April 17,
2009.
310
“I don’t know
how”: author interview with Larry Page, March 25,
2008.
311
“We’ve been
able”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, March 26,
2008.
311
income from digital
operations:New York Times Co. financial disclosure
for the year ending December 31, 2008.
311
About half of the About
Group’s revenues: two author e-mail exchanges with
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., April 29, 2009.
311
“The official answer”: author
interviews with Eric Schmidt, March 26, 2008 and April 1,
2009.
312
“Our industry
faces”: author e-mail exchange with Arthur
Sulzberger, Jr., April 29, 2009.
313
10 percent of these were
downloaded: author interview with Jeff Bezos, July 9,
2008. When I sought to update this number, Bezos’s deputy Craig
Berman, reported in a May 2009 e-mail that it had grown to 35
percent.
313
What gives publishers
pause: Motoko Rich, “Preparing to Sell E-Books,
Google Takes on Amazon,” New York
Times, June 1, 2009.
313
“Physical
books”: Jeff Bezos interviewed at the D Conference
attended by author, May 28, 2008, and interview with author, July
9, 2008.
314
nightly audience has
plunged: nightly news audience decline from Richard
Perez-Pena, New York Times, May 11, 2009.
314
Jack Myers
projects: Myers Advertising and Marketing Investment
Insights, March 10, 2009.
315
Neilson reported in early
2009: Nielsen report on fourth quarter 2008
television and Internet video cited in the Wall Street Journal, February 23,
2009.
315
If four
million: Bobbie Kotick interviewed at D Conference
attended by author, May 28, 2008.
315
“To survive”:
author interviews with Quincy Smith, January 23, 2008, and April 9,
2008, May 19 and 25, 2009, and with Les Moonves, July 8,
2009.
316
The biggest box office
: Brian Stelter and Brad Stone, “Digital Pirates
Winning Battle with Major Hollywood Studios,” New York Times, February 5,
2009.
316
Sergey Brin described going
on a boat in Europe: author interview with Sergey
Brin, March 26, 2008.
317
So they initiated
efforts: Sam Schechner and Vishesh Kumar, “Cable
Firms Look to Offer TV Programs Online,” Wall
Street Journal, February 20, 2009, and interviews with
senior television executives.
317
Eric Schmidt saw a
demonstration: author interview with Eric Schmidt,
April 1, 2009, and Sezmi.com.
318
“We can go
directly”: author interview with Ivan Seidenberg,
October 30, 2008.
319
Irwin Gotlieb also
dismisses: author interview with Irwin Gotlieb,
February 9, 2009.
321
“Do you feel
bad”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, March 26,
2008.