magazines

The New Yorker’s David Remnick Moves Beyond the Magazine (Video)

Ina Fried in Dive Into Media on January 31 at 2:18 pm PT

The magazine’s editor says that tablets are great, and that even phones offer new opportunities for long-form content.

Martha Stewart on Her Changing Media Empire

Ina Fried in Dive Into Media on January 31 at 11:30 am PT

“We are relentless in serving our customers where they need us, where they want us,” Stewart said, speaking at D: Dive Into Media on Tuesday.

Online Commerce Trend: More Spending, Smaller Purchases

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 20 at 12:22 pm PT

The average checkout size is shrinking, even though more people spent more money online. Why? Here are three reasons.

Maybe Apple’s Newsstand Really Was a Present for Publishers

Peter Kafka in Media on December 23, 2011 at 3:30 am PT

Real numbers from Popular Science show what dedicated space in iTunes can mean for a digital magazine.

Time Inc. Magazines Make It to the Kindle Fire, After All

Peter Kafka in Media on November 15, 2011 at 5:43 pm PT

It took some haggling, but Time Warner’s publishing unit joins Hearst, Condé Nast and other big publishers on Amazon’s new tablet.

The Nook Doesn’t Need the Cloud. The Nook Needs the Cloud. Discuss.

Peter Kafka in Media on November 7, 2011 at 11:49 am PT

Unlike Amazon’s Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble’s new tablet isn’t tied to a proprietary cloud service. The bookseller seems to have mixed feelings about it.

Voices

Time Inc. Hires Digital Chief

Russell Adams, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on October 25, 2011 at 10:56 am PT

Time Inc. hired former Nokia Corp. executive George Linardos as the new head of digital marketing at the magazine-publishing unit, the company said Tuesday, a move that is likely to affirm the magazine company’s conservative approach to distributing titles like Time, People and Sports Illustrated on tablet computers.

Hey, Guess What Happens to Advertising if the Economy Tanks

Peter Kafka in Media on September 7, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Here’s some unpleasant deja vu: Summer’s over, the economy is wobbling, and analysts are starting to hack away at advertising forecasts.

Time Magazine Rolls Out Print/Digital Subscriptions — And Puts Up Another Web Pay Wall

Peter Kafka in Media on July 19, 2011 at 8:28 am PT

Time magazine is making it easier for readers to subscribe to its digital and print editions. And harder for non-subscribers to read the magazine on the Web.