In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It’s the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription.

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…

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 month vacancy left by Jack Griffin, who was ousted as CEO after less than five months. She’s also expected to fill the void…

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…

Nine months after he fired Jack Griffin, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes has finally filled the most prominent empty chair at the media company, appointing Laura Lang, CEO of Digitas since 2008, as CEO of Time Inc. Once again, he’s going outside the company to do it—and this…

Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system’s early adopters, according to research data.

Next Issue Media, the digitized magazine and newspaper newsstand, has added several more titles from company backers Hearst and Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) to its preview edition and struck new distribution agreements with several mobile device makers. However, as it prepares for its full-feature product release for some time in…

Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) siblings HBO and Sports Illustrated magazine are collaborating a on a multi-part documentary series entitled Sport in America: Our Defining Stories, that’s set to air sometime in 2013. But why wait for that moment? The two have launched an online video site that for SportInAmerica, that…

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…

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 protect publishers’ revenue as more ad dollars flow through ad exchange systems. But publishers are still tentative. As a vendor, the best way to prove to publishers that…

Publishers are once again rubbing their hands together over the new possibility of another, non-Apple-owned avenue for selling digital versions of their periodicals. There are certainly reasons for hope, which is why Hearst and Condé Nast both released their latest numbers for digital downloads and subscriptions—though both were careful not…

Big changes atop digital at two major news sites today: Kevin Krim, the head of Bloomberg.com, is leaving the company, while Jim Frederick, who oversaw operations at Time.com as the site’s managing editor, is the new editor of Time (NYSE: TWX) International. 

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 relevance by not just emphasizing the Time the brand online, but ramping up attention a lot more on news niches, creating blogs around key…

Tablets and smart phones are everywhere you turn but companies have been slow to redirect their ad spending to these new platforms. For now, mobile advertising remains a tantalizing but still elusive opportunity. Three executives gathered at paidContent Advertising to share their thoughts on when and how the ad industry…

Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is expanding its magazines’ presence on the Nook Newsstand. Starting today, print subscribers to Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated, and Time will be able to read the Nook editions of those magazines for free (as they can on the iPad and other tablets). Time Inc. plans to…

A few weeks after extending its “all access” subscription plans to Time magazine, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is working on creating tablet editions for its entire roster of 21 titles by the end of 2011. In addition to Time, the publisher currently markets tablet versions of People, Sports Illustrated and…

E-singles are one of the hottest new publishing trends—with everyone from David Baldacci and Jodi Picoult to Byliner and Slate testing them out. These bite-sized e-books, priced accordingly, could be a panacea for authors and publishers seeking new revenue streams. E-singles are a much more effective way to tackle newsy…

Time magazine is rolling out an “all access” subscription plan that gives current print subscribers complete use of the title’s content across all its digital versions, including its apps on the iPad, HP (NYSE: HPQ) Touchpad and Samsung Galaxy Tab. The move reflects the unwillingness of most readers to pay…

By and large, consumer magazine ad pages have been trending pretty well the past year, ekeing out slim gains amid advertisers’ continued migration from print to digital. But as the latest Publishers Information Bureau figures for Q2 indicate, the gains continue to be slow, while food-related titles, a category that…