DVD Sales Crushing Digital Distro, Google's Potential Head Of Sales, Seattle P-I Goes Web Only

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DVDs Still Crushing Digital Distribution Companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Netflix are planning for a potential future where movies are distributed over the Internet. But right now, the vast majority of home video revenue is still coming from DVDs. That's true even for font/design nerds, who would presumably be more likely to download their movies: On a panel at South by Southwest, Helvetica producer/director Gary Hustwit said about 90% of his film's at-home revenue has come from DVDs, with about 10% coming from digital services like Apple's iTunes and Netflix. (He says he's made about $60,000 from digital.) Read >

Meet Google's New Rainmaker So far, the only candidate to emerge as a potentional replacement for Google's departing head of US sales, Tim Armstrong, is Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Google's president for Asia-Pacific & Latin America operations. We're not exceedingly familiar with Sukhinder's work, so we asked readers to fill us in. Read >

NYT's Sulzberger Still Doesn't Get It New York Times Company publisher Arthur Sulzberger still doesn't get it. Specifically, he still doesn't understand that his challenge is not to "save journalism"--which doesn't need saving--but to save the New York Times (which does). Read >

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Goes Web-Only Hearst Corp. says it has given up trying to sell the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer and will turn it into a Web-only publication. Read >

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