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… 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 »
A new survey from the Alliance for Audited Media (formerly the Audit Bureau of Circulations) finds that newspaper and magazine publishers’ digital businesses are gradually becoming profitable, and 63 percent say… Read more »
News Corp concedes its pioneering tablet-only news title is not popular enough to continue as anything other than a learning exercise, marking the failure of one aspect of Rupert Murdoch’s tablet… Read more »
Many publishers are beginning to realize the prospect of selling stuff to readers. Women’s magazine Grazia is the latest to try, by reorienting its iPad edition as a fashion and beauty… Read more »
As it launches a new weekly tech magazine on iPad, publisher Future puts some numbers on impressive tablet magazine gains, but overall revenue is slightly down. Read more »
A start-up is trying to bring Next Issue Media-style magazine subscriptions to European iPads. But Le Kiosk is taking on €5.6 million in funding to improve its underlying tech with social… Read more »
A magazine is making its 1,000-issue, 90-year archive available to digital subscribers. The model could light the way for expert content publishers, who may be sitting on an archive gold mine… Read more »
Magazine publisher Future’s early enthusiasm for Apple’s Newsstand storefront appears to be paying off. The company has sold £5 million in titles there, and now wants to diversify and globalise its… Read more »
Digital-replica magazine circulation has grown fast this year. But, so far, the emerging sector is still too tiny to have any positive impact on an industry whose overall circulation goes on… Read more »