Time Warner will put its magazine titles, including People and Sports Illustrated, into a separate company later this year. The move is a surprise as the publishing world had expected the company to sell most its publications to Iowa-based Meredith. Read more »
All-you-can-read digital magazine app Next Issue Media is expanding from iPad to Windows 8. The company partnered with Microsoft and hopes that users will want to read digital magazines across their devices. Read more »
Time Warner is reportedly looking to sell off most of its magazines to Meredith, the publisher of titles like Better Homes and Gardens and Ladies’ Home Journal. Read more »
Remember when Friendster was the hot social network, publishers doubted that ebooks would ever sell, and Netflix thought DVDs in red envelopes was the future? We do — that was that state of digital media when paidContent launched in 2002. Read more »
Next Issue Media’s tablet magazines are finally available for the iPad, three months after the platform launched on Android 3.0. Users can read popular magazines like People, Vogue and the New Yorker for a flat monthly fee. So is the cost worth it? Read more »
“Virtually every publication in the world right now would desperately like to be 100 percent digital,” said Flipboard editorial director and Time Inc. vet Josh Quittner said at Internet Week this week, as publishers debated how to monetize digital magazines. Read more »
Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media goes live with its long-delayed digital newsstand. Users will be able to read popular magazines for a flat fee — if they have a tablet running Android 3.0 or later. For now, iPad and Kindle Fire users need not apply. Read more »
Not too long ago, grazing the magazine bins was a perk of going to a trade show. But consolidation and closures mean fewer publications — a… Read more »
In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subs… Read more »
This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from… Read more »
When Digitas head Laura Lang starts her new job as CEO of Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) in January, she’s not only going to be filling the nine mont… Read more »
Consumer Reports, which named the iPad the top tablet earlier this year, is now adding subscriptions and free access for print subscribers t… Read more »
Nine months after he fired Jack Griffin, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has finally filled the most prominent empty chair at the me… Read more »
Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system’s early adopters, according to research data. Read more »
Next Issue Media, the digitized magazine and newspaper newsstand, has added several more titles from company backers Hearst and Time Inc. (N… Read more »
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings HBO and Sports Illustrated magazine are collaborating a on a multi-part documentary series entitled Sport i… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) have sent out so many press releases about their respective upcoming tablets this week th… Read more »
Google’s pending $400 million purchase of supply-side platform AdMeld has shown, there’s a lot of interest these days services that aim to p… Read more »
Publishers are once again rubbing their hands together over the new possibility of another, non-Apple-owned avenue for selling digital versi… Read more »
Big changes atop digital at two major news sites today: Kevin Krim, the head of Bloomberg.com, is leaving the company, while Jim Frederick,… Read more »
The value of being a weekly print brand in the online era has been in doubt for years, but Time magazine believes that it can retain relevan… Read more »
Tablets and smart phones are everywhere you turn but companies have been slow to redirect their ad spending to these new platforms. For now,… Read more »
Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is expanding its magazines’ presence on the Nook Newsstand. Starting today, print subscribers to Fortune, People, Spor… Read more »
A few weeks after extending its “all access” subscription plans to Time magazine, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is working on creating tablet editio… Read more »
E-singles are one of the hottest new publishing trends–with everyone from David Baldacci and Jodi Picoult to Byliner and Slate testing them… Read more »
Time magazine is rolling out an “all access” subscription plan that gives current print subscribers complete use of the title’s content acro… Read more »
By and large, consumer magazine ad pages have been trending pretty well the past year, ekeing out slim gains amid advertisers’ continued mig… Read more »
Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media is adding six titles to its digital storefront on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android-powered Samsung Ga… Read more »
Magazine publishers are putting a lot of faith in apps, building development teams and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (in some ca… Read more »
With nearly 100 apps already in circulation, including Zinio digital replicas of all its 14 magazines, Hearst plans to issue a dozen more ap… Read more »
Josh Quittner, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) director of digital editorial development for news, sports, and business, is leaving the print magazine… Read more »
Content publishers are facing difficult choices about how to direct often limited resources to a growing number of platforms and business mo… Read more »
Next Issue Media, the major magazine and newspaper joint venture, is officially opening its “digital storefront” on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG)… Read more »
Among the usual suspects like Michael Connelly and James Patterson on the top 10 list of paid Kindle bestsellers this week was something of… Read more »
One way publishers could skirt Apple’s 30 percent commission – just don’t offer new subscriptions through apps. That’s what Time (NYSE: TWX)… Read more »
Barely six months into the job, former National Geographic Society publishing exec John Q. Griffin is leaving Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) by “mutu… Read more »
Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is making its first big digital hire since the Jack Griffin debacle ended Interactive Advertising Bureau head Randall… Read more »
CNNMoney, the online hub for Fortune and Money magazines, has overhauled its site to adjust to the look and feel of a tablet screen. In conj… Read more »
Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s filmed entertainment and publishing segments experienced a fairly uneven quarter as its networks business, through… Read more »
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