Not too long ago, grazing the magazine bins was a perk of going to a trade show. But consolidation and closures mean fewer publications—and digital platforms offer access to the info without lugging around the ones that are left. Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.‘s solution at CES this year?

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 publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. Not too long ago, TV Everywhere was a bold concept being evangelized by Time Warner…

Condé Nast cooking site Epicurious is selling Random House digital cookbooks that users can import into their “digital recipe boxes.” However, they cannot access the cookbooks they buy anywhere except through the Epicurious app and from the Epicurious website.

A strange libel lawsuit that reads like a pulp version of the The Da Vinci Code just became a bit stranger—the controversial art world figure who is suing the New Yorker is now taking aim at other media outlets that repeated the venerable magazine’s allegations.

In fashion, they say, what goes around comes around. Now designers, fashionistas and historians—as well as advertisers and the simply curious—can browse Vogue’s new digital archive for inspiration. It contains every page of every U.S. issue of Vogue published since the magazine launched in 1892, indexed and searchable. A yearly…

Consumer Reports, which named the iPad the top tablet earlier this year, is now adding subscriptions and free access for print subscribers to its iPad app. As part of its ongoing strategy to reach younger readers, it is also releasing seven new smartphone apps, including one that scans barcodes for…

On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, another magazine publisher is gearing up to join the seven-figure club: Hearst says it is on track to reach one million paying subscribers to its digital editions in…

News of the latest hirings and exits in the digital media business in brief…

Condé Nast is relaunching its online image archives store in partnership with online prints and posters retailer Art.com as tries to find a better way to make money off its magazines’ vast archive of photos and illustrations from Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Vogue and Glamour.

Although ad sales people at major publishers sometimes like to deride real-time bidding as a “race to the bottom,” fearing that the auction-based model will only erode their premium prices and perhaps make their job less relevant, media companies have little choice but to follow where marketers’ money flows—and that…

The battle of the tablet newsstands continues: Condé Nast is making all 18 of its magazines available for Nook Tablet and Nook Color.

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) have sent out so many press releases about their respective upcoming tablets this week that I have begun to imagine both devices snapping back and forth at each other like squabbling children. In the latest round of this, Amazon is launching…

Condé Nast is finally allowing UK print subscribers to its magazines to access the same magazines inside corresponding iPad apps, by inputting their print subscription number to the apps.

Condé Nast is the latest publisher to claim a boom in digital magazine sales from the launch of Apple’s Newsstand two weeks: the publisher of Glamour, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Wired says that new subscription sales, per week, across all nine digital editions, was up 268 percent, with…

Condé Nast is get into producing TV, film and digital programing with the introduction of a new entertainment division and has brought in TV network veteran Dawn Ostroff to operate it. Ostroff is leaving her post at the CW, the network she helped launch in 2006 to become president, Condé…

As publishers have made use of Twitter and Facebook to drive traffic back to their branded, Condé Nast’s Social Sidekick tool is meant to get its online readers to stick around longer and check out sibling magazine sites. The tool, which is starting to be rolled out this afternoon across…

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The value of 2D barcodes by print magazines looking to connect with reader’s mobile phone activity is getting a big test of with Glamour‘s large September fall fashion issue. The Condé Nast magazine worked with Facebook to add “SnapTags” to its cover and inside advertising pages that will encourage readers…

Condé Nast has managed to attract 242,000 digital edition customers within a six-week period after introducing subscriptions on Apple’s App Store in May. That number includes digital subscriptions, digital single copies, and the 136,000 print subscribers who have opted to add digital editions at no extra cost to them. Looked…