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… Read more »
Unpaid media internships have long been a stepping stone to a career, but it looks like their days are numbered. Yesterday Erik Maza broke the news that Condé Nast is discontinuing… Read more »
A Boston judge refused to shut down TV streaming service Aereo, saying the service is like a remote DVR, not a public transmission. It added that any harm to broadcasters would… Read more »
InternMatch, a start-up that helps students find internships, is calling on companies to sign a “Bill of Rights’ that promises fair treatment and paid or meaningful work. Some big names are… Read more »
The San Francisco Chronicle has launched a subscription-only site that puts much of the paper’s content behind a paywall. The site is free to print subscribers, and a digital-only package is… 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 »
The arrival of the iPad was supposed to boost online subscription sales for magazines. It didn’t work out that way. But smaller devices like the iPad Mini and Nook are starting… Read more »
Nearly 65 percent of U.S. magazines now have a digital replica edition, but those editions make up just under three percent of overall circulation. For some individual titles, though, digital growth… Read more »
Magazine publishers will have to adopt more nuanced digital pricing strategies as tablets take off. They can look to book publishers — who are a lot further along in the digital… Read more »
Google wants to take its tablet magazine storefront global. But, while its media partnerships executive Madhav Chinnappa expands mobile initiatives, he faces proposed European legislation that could impact on Google News’… Read more »