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Financial Times -- Media stocks tackle net ad challenge: 'Shares of media and communications companies have been underperforming the broader market for the last five years and there is no obvious sign that this will change in 2006. The reason is not so much their current performance.'

New York Times -- It's Like Selling Meals by the Bite. And It May Work: 'How much is this sentence - the very one you are reading right now - worth?... This is not a play for a raise or a plug for the genius of my prose, but a riff on the latest mania in media-land: finding new ways to be paid for old material.'

Boston Globe -- Crunching The Metadata: 'The real challenge to traditional publishing today comes not from the digitizing of books, but from the very nature of the Web itself.'