Time Warner Is Spinning Off Time Inc. Magazines
Time Warner said Wednesday that it will spin off the magazine unit behind Time, Sports Illustrated and People into a separate, publicly traded company by the end of the year.
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Can Google's Android Undercut iTunes for News?
Google is considering a plan to expand its Android newsstand -- and heat rivalry with Apple's iTunes -- by charging publishers a lower price to sell news to Android users than the 30% fee that Apple typically charges to sell apps on iTunes. Will that be enough to attract more news?
Why SI Ignored Apple's iPad Guidelines
Magazine publishers are at great pains these days to please Apple, whose fast-selling tablet computer, the iPad, just may be the key to their future survival. But following all the persnickety dictates handed down by Steve Jobs isn't always easy, as Sports Illustrated recently realized.
Why Magazines' iPad Apps Get Such Bad Reader Reviews
Magazines have been generating all kinds of hype for their iPad editions, but if you read what customers who bought the digital versions are saying, it's not very nice.
Another Potential Newsweek Suitor Off the List
There may be bidders for Newsweek who haven't stepped forward, but Bob Guccione Jr. isn't one of them. Though he loves print, he says the newsweekly category is "in the late autumn of its life cycle."
The Dirtiest Lunch Rooms in the Media Business
The American print-publishing industry isn't healthy -- and the food it's serving its workers may not be, either. A quick survey of cafeteria health inspection records shows some alarming results. Lunch anyone?
Top Publishers Link Arms in E-Reader Push
Five media companies that spend most of their time in bitter competition with one another are now joining forces in a new venture intended to midwife the arrival of portable digital magazines and newspapers on a mass scale.
