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… Read more »
How should the first sale doctrine apply to digital goods? Members of Congress came to New York to hear the opinions of publishing executives, librarians and others. Read more »
RebelMouse, the social-aggregation platform founded by Paul Berry — the former chief technology officer at Huffington Post — is relaunching as a full-fledged publishing system designed for media companies who want… Read more »
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… Read more »
A trial in July will determine how much Apple will pay in punishment for fixing ebook prices. A lead lawyer says the tab could be over $800 million. Read more »
The Justice Department filed a 117-page brief in an appeal over its antitrust claims against Apple’s ebook policies. Meanwhile, it has little to say about Amazon, which appears more powerful than… Read more »
For some time now, there’s been a whole lotta grumbling about the market dominance of Amazon in the world of books. Authors and publishers alike have both complained about the online… Read more »
Automattic, the parent company of popular blog-hosting and publishing platform WordPress, has raised a funding round of $160 million to help it develop better online and mobile tools for publishing, a… Read more »
Automattic, the San Francisco-based company that is responsible for the WordPress web-publishing and blog-hosting platform — and the associated open-source community — is raising a round of venture capital that could… Read more »
There are more ways than ever to measure traffic, readership, attention and engagement with our content. But all that means is there are even more things to distract us from the… Read more »