This summer, Politico signed a deal with Random House to publish four instant e-books about the 2012 presidential campaign. Now Politico has opened an online bookstore, powered by Random House, selling politics and policy titles from a variety of publishers.

YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is launching a new politics site today that it hopes will offer a “holistic” view of the candidates on the campaign trial, and also, via its metrics, provide a snapshot of their popularity among voters. But at the first glance, YouTube Politics seems to be falling well…

National Journal, the politics and public policy publisher headquartered in Washington, D.C. and owned by the Atlantic Media Group, is looking to offer “new services” like original research and pre-written memos to its readers as part of its switch to a membership-based model. Readers who had previously subscribed to just…

Publishers have begun to experiment with instant e-books to capitalize on political news and other timely events. The Daily Beast teamed up with Perseus Books Group in 2009 to publish e-books on a shortened schedule. And following the death of Osama Bin Laden, publishers rushed to release instant e-books.

The juggernaut called Politico keeps on rolling, nevermind the recession, thank you. And some changes in company structure may hint at what could come next for it. The site and print paper, started in January 2007 by Allbritton Communications (ACC), has in two years grown to be a $20 million…

Politico’s owner is not content with decimating Washington Post‘s franchise of politics coverage, but is now going after where it may hurt most: local coverage. Allbritton Communications is working on launching a local DC site, we have confirmed from sources, first reported by TNR.com earlier this evening. It has hired…

Robert Allbritton doesn’t deal in specifics but the investor behind Politico insists to Gabe Sherman in The New Republic that the print-online hybrid will turn a profit in six months even though traffic is down more than 50 percent from its pre-election heights. Allbritton: “We’re way ahead of budget. It…

Politico’s fledgling newspaper-distribution program is getting a boost from Reuters, which will supplement the political news site’s content with its own articles, the NYT reports. The 60 newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Denver Post, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, that have signed up to receive articles…

HuffingtonPost.com and Politico.com, two sites that didn’t exist in the last presidential election, lead the list of most-trafficked sites in the standalone political sites and blogs category, according to numbers released by *Comscore*. HuffPo has 4.5 million visitors in September, up 472 percent versus year ago, while Politico.com attracted 2.4…

Ever since its inception in early 2007, upstart political news organization The Politico knew the date November 5, 2008 would roll around. That’s the day after the election, when popular interest in politics is bound to tail off considerably. So what’s the plan? More print. The company says it plans…

Trying to ride the wave of feverish campaign news stories surrounding the major parties’ presidential candidates, Politico.com has launched its ad network with over 30 newspapers. Just before Labor Day, the site revealed plans to partner with newspapers, which have been cutting back on their own staffs. And like most…

It’s a good time to be covering politics, given the interminable campaign season. In between the two big conventions, Forbes checks in on Politico.com, a news site founded in 2007 by former Washington Post reporters John Harris and Jim VandeHei. The company, which operates a website, a print version and…