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.
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?
Conde Nast launched an iPad version of The New Yorker today. The editors of the venerable magazine say they are delighted -- if a little bewildered -- by the new technology.
Steve Jobs' dictate that apps for Apple's iPad and iPhone contain no pornography or nudity affects plenty of major magazines, including Playboy and Cosmopolitan. How are they dealing with it?
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.
While the first wave of magazines made available on the iPad consisted largely of male-oriented titles like Popular Mechanics and Sports Illustrated, women's publications are starting to follow -- led by Glamour, whose Apple app goes live today.
A management overhaul at Conde Nast is meant to help its iconic magazines -- including Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker -- flourish in this century as they did in the last.
Conde Nast was ruthless with its print magazine titles in 2009, shuttering many niche favorites like Domino. Fans were thrilled this week when content from Domino began reappearing under the Brides magazine masthead on the company's Brides.com website.
David Carey had the inside track to becoming Conde Nast's next CEO, but instead he's been named president of archrival Hearst Magazines. Among his hits at Conde Nast are The New Yorker, Wired and Golf Digest. Portfolio didn't fare so well.
Conde Nast is using 'Gourmet,' the food magazine it shut down last fall, as a low-risk guinea pig for digital development.
While many marketers continue to tighten their belts due to the rough economy, at least one segment of the print advertising industry is more than willing to spend. Large food manufacturers combined to up their ad spending by 12.4 percent in the year's first quarter.
W magazine undoubtedly got its lease on life renewed Tuesday when parent company Conde Nast hired Stefano Tonchi (pictured) from The New York Times to be the high-end fashion title's new editor-in-chief. But the magazine may not be on a long-term lease.
Vanity Fair recently delivered its annual Hollywood issue to howls of protest. The problem: Of the nine supposedly up-and-coming starlets featured on the fold-out cover, not one is African-American, Asian or Hispanic.
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?
