digital content

Apple has just annointed Flipboard, an innovative news aggregation app, as its Application of the Year. It's just one of several such apps that sort of mimic how cable companies operate as bundlers of content. And therein lies the promise of a mass, ad-supported business model.

Forbes Media said Friday it has hired an investment bank to explore a sale of Investopedia, the 11-year-old investor-education website it acquired in 2007.

The Dow isn't the only thing shrinking as fast as your net worth; magazines have also been slimming down in recent months. Even Blender, which had always ran a song quote on its spine has given it up as it moves to fewer pages and a smaller binding. Blender isn't alone with the overall number of ad...

Barnes & Noble (BKS), the nation's largest brick-and-mortar bookstore chain, announced yesterday that is has purchased the second- largest distributor, of e-books, Fictionwise, for $15 .7 million in cash. The acquisition brings to Barnes & Noble a catalog of over 60,000 titles formatted...