Summary: Amazon’s e-books will be pricier; Facebook seems to be the new global paper

• Amazon gives in to publishers’ demands for higher e-book prices
• Yes, people get their news on Facebook. The age of the real gatekeeping is over…
• CNN: For Mexico’s journalists, story assignments can be a date with death
• Study: 57% of news users now go to digital publications instead of print ones. 31% are likelier to turn to an aggregator than a newspaper site
• Nielsen: Digital newspapers get 5.5% rise in 2009 visitors
• News Corp (and Rupert Murdoch) wants an Avatar sequel

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