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Aug 06 2008 8:44am EDT

Idle Chatter: Sirius, DailyCandy, Kindle, more

-Mel Karmazin's favorite movie he's made is Jackass, and he'd move Sirius from Midtown to New Jersey if he had his way. [NYT]

-Comcast has bought DailyCandy for $125 million. That's a nice little 4,000 percent bump over the price it sold for in 2003. [SAI]

-Will the Kindle be the savior of reading -- and book-buying -- as we know it? Here are some reasons it might not. [Portfolio]

-In Touch and Life & Style will both fall short of their circulation guarantees amid an industry-wide downturn in sales. [NYP]. □


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