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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?

American Media, publisher of National Enquirer, plans to file for bankruptcy protection in the next two weeks, as it seeks to convert its substantial debt to equity shares in the company.

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...

Two newspaper companies, The New York Times Co. and McClatchy, both saw advertising revenues decline in the third quarter, compared to a year ago. And that's after last year's ad sales plunged from 2008.

Gannett's third-quarter profit beat the Street, but disappointing revenue plunged shares 8.8%. The company's revenue remained flat, missing analyst forecasts, as its newspaper operations declined 5%.

Publishers talk about the iPad, Kindle and other tablets as their salvation. New consumer research suggests that view may be well-grounded: Tablet users are devouring more content -- and are reconciled to paying.

There's nothing newspaper and magazine publishers crave more right now than a straightforward way to sell subscriptions via Apple's App Store. But Apple's plan to let them do just that may not do much to help the beleaguered industry.

Philadelphia Media Network thought it had a deal after winning the papers in April, but the Teamsters have balked at the last minute. That means the Philly Inquirer and Daily News will be auctioned again, and Philadelphia Media plans to try again.

It's official: Newspapers now trail the Internet as a source of news for Americans, according to the Pew Research Center. Of those polled, 34% said they had gone online for news the previous day, while 31% said they had read a newspaper. But it's not all bad news for newspapers.

U.S. advertising will increase about 3% this year and will rise about 35% over the next nine years, though the increase will be mostly in new media and not in newspapers and other older forms of advertising, according to a report released today.