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Business Matters: Murdoch rebuffed 17 Jul 14

Thu, 17 Jul 14

Paddy Hirsch from our US sister programme Marketplace discusses Rupert Murdoch's $80-billion offer for Time Warner and what it would mean for America's media landscape if the deal does eventually go ahead. In our Singapore bureau, Sunita Kaur, Managing Director of Spotify Asia, discusses the future of streaming and looks ahead to a world in which the physical - the CD, the vinyl, the book, the newspaper - becomes a thing of the past. Author and poet Marko Sijan joins us from Montreal, to talk about Amazon's proposed new subscription¹ model for Kindle², and Cindy Sui in Taipei explains why there's such a furore over whether a tiny Taiwanese island should get a convenience store.

1 subscription   

n.预订，预订费，亲笔签名，调配法，下标（处方）

参考例句：

• We paid a subscription of 5 pounds yearly.我们按年度缴纳5英镑的订阅费。
• Subscription selling bloomed splendidly.订阅销售量激增。

2 kindle   

v.点燃，着火

参考例句：

• This wood is too wet to kindle.这木柴太湿点不着。
• A small spark was enough to kindle Lily's imagination.一星光花足以点燃莉丽的全部想象力。