Magazines

The classic graduation gifts are perfect for someone headed for an artist's colony or off on a vacation. But with half of recent college grads unemployed, the best gifts are ones that will help put them on the fast track to a job. Here are five smart options.

Why wait for the postman to deliver your next copy of Glamour or Golf Digest when you can print it out at home? This is the half-baked idea that Hewlett-Packard and magazine mogul Conde Nast are proposing this week. The two companies are teaming up to offer printer-fueled content from Conde Nast magazines including Allure, Wired, and Epicurious.

Magazine executive John T. Elduff recently paid $2,000 for the trademark rights of the once-renowned weekly Collier's, which went bankrupt in the 1950s. His plans to bring it back to life as a print publication aim at folks who'll recall the name: those in the 50- to 90-year old demographic.

Get a free issue of Real Simple when you sign up with your name, email, and address. Sounds simple, right? But by signing up, you agree to get two additional free newsletters related to the same topics Real Simple covers -- beauty tips, health advice, organizing secrets, etc. It's not clear if the...

Newsweek and The Daily Beast have finally agreed to merge. But with each business struggling, the new entity may be more like a marriage of two wounded media operations.

Amazon.com says it will pay more for newspapers and magazines on its Kindle e-book reader. It will now pay publishers 70% of retail price, up from paying about one-third of the retail fee for The Wall Street Journal last December. Will more content help Kindle compete with the iPad?

I almost never blog about contests, but I singled out this contest to win a free subscription to Better Homes & Gardens because 10,000 winners will receive the mag for a year. Sign up by Dec. 17, 2010, at 11:59 p.m. EST to qualify. The contest is being run by Avon, which is paying for the...

Barnes & Noble officially launched a color eBook reader officially known as the Nook Color, which will be available starting November 19 for $249. The Nook Color has a 7-inch screen and provides access to the Barnes & Noble eBook store with more than 2 million titles, most of which you will...

It's another nail in the Postal Service's coffin. Magazines are ripping a page from newspaper tradition and are ditching the U.S. Mail and contracting with cheaper delivery services to hand-deliver their issues. The change further dents our national mail's bottom line. It's also bringing back the...

Get a cheap magazine subscription to Harper's Bazaar - just $4.39 for a one-year subscription, which is normally $15. The super cheap rate is courtesy of Best Deal Magazines and is only available today, Oct. 12, 2010, until 11:59 p.m. The subscription includes 11 issues geared toward "the...