• More conflict ensues in the Mattel-MGA Bratz battle (Courthouse News Service)
• Marketers gird for uneven economic recovery in the US (AdAge)
• In a nutshell – the summer’s biggest winners and losers in Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Could Apple TV bruise the console gaming industry? (VentureBeat)
• FTC subpoenas 48 companies marketing foods to kids in the US (AdAge)
• Children’s author and illustrator Lane Smith explores the merits of a printed book in a digital world (Wall Street Journal)
• After weeks of posturing Disney, Time Warner reach a cable carriage deal (L.A. Times)
• Retail sales in Eurozone higher than expected (Wall Street Journal)
• 10 obscure superheroes who deserve a movie? You decide (GeekDad)
• Scholastic revamps its in-school book sales marketing efforts (New York Times)
• In case you hadn’t heard, Apple’s trying the TV thing again (Wall Street Journal)
• The complicated race to the top of Warner Bros. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• The dog ate my iPad? One school gives the Apple device to each of its students (Forbes)
• Why the growing crop of indie game developers is a very good thing (Wired)
• Disney turns its back on Hollywood’s Annie Awards (Variety)
• Wall Street tells investors to look out for toy companies (Businessweek)
• Apple and Disney inch closer to TV show rental deal (Wall Street Journal)
• Edward Cullen, the US$2 billion man, er, vampire? (The Hollywood Reporter)