Julian Assange, the embattled founder of Wikileaks, is seeking asylum at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, writes Ravi Somaiya. Mr. Assange, who is facing extradition to Sweden to face allegations over sexual assault, believes that he will be indicted in the United States for his role in the release of millions of diplomatic documents.
Fifty Shades of Red: Barnes & Noble broke out the sales of the Nook for the first time this quarter and the results weren’t good. Sales of the Nook declined 10.5 percent from the previous year although the quarter didn’t include the introduction of the new version of the popular e-reader. Overall, the company lost $57.7 million for the quarter on revenue of $1.38 billion.
Everybody downloads music illegally, right? Maybe not. A blog post by an NPR intern who admitted that she paid little for the 11,000 songs she owned set off a firestorm online, including a long essay by David Lowery of the bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker that amounts to a full-scale assault on the free music generation.
News Corporation is in a buying mood again after pulling out of its bid for BSkyB. The company announced that it would buy Consolidated Media, a large Australian pay television conglomerate, for $2.2 billion.
More corporate upheaval at Dow Jones: Todd H. Larsen, the president of the company, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch, is stepping down, the company said on Tuesday. This the latest in a series of high-level changes under the new chief executive, Lex Fenwick, formerly of Bloomberg.
Jonah Lehrer, the science writer now at The New Yorker, has been recycling his writing from other publications for the magazine. The New Yorker says it “regrets the duplication of material.”
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