Services like Magzter and NextIssue promise a digital version of the old-fashioned newsstand, where people can flip through the virtual pages of their favorite magazines -- but that's not the way most people consume content any more…
Read MoreResearch
Flipboard launches version 3.0: Smarter recommendations plus a curated daily newsmagazine
Flipboard has launched a major redesign of its social-magazine app, adding smarter curation tools using technology from Zite, which it acquired in March, as well as a daily newspaper-style magazine that will be curated by the company's editorial staff…
Read MoreIt was great having you, magazines. Let’s just say goodbye now
When print magazines are gone, how much will we miss them?…
Read MoreThe road to smarter packaging: Austrian firm prints basic display directly onto paper
The technique uses normal screen-printing technology and doesn't require a clean room, so it could pave the way for the low-cost inclusion of basic displays on packaging and in magazines.…
Read MoreMedium adds tech heavyweight Steven Levy as it builds its digital magazine/platform
Wired staffer and tech-journalism veteran Steven Levy announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the magazine to join Medium, the platform/magazine founded by former Twitter CEO Evan Williams, and will be creating a technology hub or vertical for the site…
Read MoreTime Inc. is independent, but saddled with debt and digitally adrift — 3 things it needs to do
Time Warner has spun off its magazine-publishing arm as a separate company, but the legendary firm faces the same challenge as the New York Times and other traditional media players: How to get from a print-centric world to a digital one…
Read MoreMedium admits pay-per-click isn’t the best way to pay writers, still wrestling with being a platform vs. being a publisher
Medium says it is continuing to experiment with how best to compensate writers, but the recent departure of the contributing editor behind one of its collections shows there is still a tension between Medium the magazine and Medium the open platform…
Read MoreWatch out, business publishers — Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith says he is coming for you
In a manifesto for where he wants to take Bloomberg Media, new CEO Justin Smith talked about expanding the financial news giant's reach on the web -- including a rethinking of its Businessweek strategy -- as well as moving aggressively into mobile and video…
Read MoreFlipboard is acquiring Zite from CNN, forming broad advertising and content partnership with news and media giant
Flipboard, a leading mobile news-reading and content-sharing app, is acquiring one of its main competitors -- an app called Zite -- from CNN for a reported $60 million and forming an advertising and content partnership with CNN for all of the media giant's content…
Read MoreThe term “digital magazines” may sound kind of dumb, but First Look Media’s approach is not
First Look Media, the new venture from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, has launched The Intercept from Glenn Greenwald -- the first of what it calls a family of "digital magazines." But the company's strategy is much smarter than that term makes it sound…
Read MoreWhy Jason Kilar’s rumored “Hulu for magazines” startup probably isn’t going to work
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar is reportedly working on a secretive startup called The Fremont Project that wants to build a Hulu-style model for magazines and other content -- but the odds are stacked against such an attempt for a number of reasons…
Read MoreFlipboard wants to tame the unruly stream by becoming more like a traditional magazine
Flipboard is rolling out new features that group content into sections for easy browsing, in much the same way that traditional print magazines do -- in part to help keep readers from feeling overwhelmed by a never-ending ocean of content…
Read MoreForbes’ financial results show that its asking price of $400M is somewhat, er… aggressive
Financial documents that Forbes magazine has been handing out to potential buyers show that while the company is doing better than some other publishers, its rumored asking price of $400 million is extremely aggressive based on its revenue growth and profitability…
Read MoreGoogle kills Currents, launches a Flipboard-style Newsstand with support for newspaper paywalls
Google is stepping up its media game with the launch of Newsstand, a Flipboard-style reading app for Android that also supports subscription walls for newspapers and magazines and replaces its existing Currents reader…
Read MoreFlipboard fires a shot across Pinterest’s bow with new curated brand catalogs
Flipboard is making it easy for users creating curated magazines on the platform to collect and share products, complete with pricing information -- features that seem aimed at the same ecommerce market Pinterest is targeting.…
Read MorePolitico to launch free, bimonthly print magazine in November
Politico is launching a free, bi-monthly print magazine, as well as a new "Politico Magazine" section of its website that will be updated daily. The editor, Susan Glasser, was formerly editor in chief at Foreign Policy.…
Read MoreOf editors and algorithms: Evan Williams on the future of media and Medium’s role in it
There may be some low-quality content being published on Medium, says founder Evan Williams, but the platform is building ways of filtering through that to find great content that otherwise wouldn't see the light of day.…
Read MoreWhat can the failure of Tina Brown and The Daily Beast tell us about the future of media?
Despite her successful track record at magazines like Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, editor Tina Brown was incapable of making The Daily Beast work. Her failure there says a lot about how the media landscape has changed.…
Read MoreThe Amazon newsstand
Amazon knows far more about its customers than most magazine publishers know about their readers, and more than most direct marketers know about the lists they're targeting.…
Read MoreCondé Nast-Amazon deal makes magazine subscriptions quicker, but watch the fine print
Condé Nast and Amazon have a new partnership that lets readers subscribe to magazines through Amazon and activate digital access at the same time. It's easy to use, but you need to watch the pricing fine print. Here's our guide to the subscription process.…
Read MoreIs Flipboard a partner or a competitor for publishers and content creators? Yes
With the launch of a web version, Flipboard highlights how far it has evolved from its early days as a standalone app, and how it is both a partner and a potential competitor for content companies.…
Read MorePopular cooking site Allrecipes.com is getting a print magazine this fall
The 16-year-old cooking website Allrecipes.com, which was acquired by Meredith last year, is getting a bimonthly print magazine this fall.…
Read MorePrss is trying to design the iPad publishing app that Apple never built
Prss wants to make publishing magazines on a native iPad app easier, cheaper and prettier than traditional iPad platforms.…
Read MoreGallup poll says TV is first for news, the internet is second, print a distant third
More than half of those surveyed in a new Gallup poll said that the television is their main source for news, and about 21 percent chose the internet. Less than 10 percent said print newspapers are their main source.…
Read More