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Amazon is set to launch a new e-book service that will enable customers to access a library of books for a fixed monthly fee.

BBC4 no longer faces the axe after more people than usually watch its programmes signed a petition to save the high-brow digital channel.

Saturday night’s X Factor peaked with an audience of 10.3 million viewers, securing the top ratings during the all important prime time slot.

Dominic Finney, director at digital consultancy FaR, says with the right strategy media owners with strong brands and clear business models are well placed to thrive…

JP Morgan has upped its forecasts for tablet sales in 2011 to 51.9 million units, from 46.1 million previously, according to Mobile Insider.

The daily national newspaper market saw circulation figures drop off in August after a positive July. Overall the market is down -0.2% PoP and -5.6% YoY. Five titles in the daily market managed to post small PoP rises.

Simon Andrews, founder of the full service mobile agency addictive!, on mobile advertising; Facebook making money; mobile disruptive music and Amazon…

100 million Twitter users now log in to their account on a daily basis, meaning that half of the social network’s registered users are ‘active’.

Having let the dust settle, allowing me time to watch Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart lecture in its entirety, I was struck by his sincerity, self-deprecation (“if we were responsible for TV programming, you’d get a lot of bad sci-fi”) and an innate understanding of where TV fits in the new media eco-system.

UK publishers will focus on audience profiling and driving content across mobile platforms such as the iPad and smartphones in the next year, according to the AOP’s annual Content & Trends Census.