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...king Google for gratis services, but they're still debating what will be free, and this model is far from proven. "Relying solely on ads is a misplaced dream to fund a multimillion-dollar network," says Craig Settles, author of Fighting the Good Fight for Municipal Wireless. MobilePro Corp. pulled out of its Sacramento, Calif., deal when the city insisted that the company offer a free service, believing ads wouldn't generate enough money. But Annapolis Wireless Internet says switching to a free model made its product viable. Its two-mile network, which is expanding, has over 5,000 subscribers...
...Simpson's ill-fated homicidal fantasy If I Did It may yet see the light of day. One of the major publishing fiascos of 2006, the volume was abruptly pulled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. right before it was due to land on store shelves in late November, the victim of widespread public outrage. But the title itself, like a bad penny, may resurface, perhaps before...
...Goldman, Ron's father, filed a lawsuit last week against both Simpson and Lorraine Brooke Associates, described by Goldman's lawyer as a "sham entity" formed to funnel the book's proceeds to the ex-football star. Goldman hopes not only to retrieve the $880,000 he says News Corp. paid Simpson as an advance, but he also wants Murdoch's company to give him all rights to If I Did It - print, audio and other peripheral sources of income from the project. "There was originally an indication they might be open to such an idea [turning all profits over...
...News. Judith Regan, the publisher of “If I Did It,” marketed the book as Mr. Simpson’s hypothetical confession for the 1995 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. But on Nov. 20, Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., which owns ReganBooks, cancelled its publication. And on Dec. 15, Judith Regan was fired...
FIRED. Judith Regan, 53, controversial book publisher; by Harper- Collins, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.; after weeks of disastrous publicity over the planned, then scrapped, publication of If I Did It, O.J. Simpson's hypothetical account of how he would have committed the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman; in Los Angeles...