• Challenges await The Hub (Reuters)
• Local schools ask parents to pick up supplies tab, leaving a 17% gain in family back-to-school spending this year (USA Today)
• Terry Nantier, founder of NBM Publishing, talks about The Smurfs’ comic book comeback (The Wall Street Journal)
• Then what’s it doing to generation Z? Facebook users more narcissistic than non-networkers (Telegraph)
• 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)
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