Starting Friday, The Guardian, a stalwart of free content, will find out just how many people will pay to read its news on tablets.

Guardian News & Media disclosed today that it is in discussions with a number of potential buyers about a possible sale of ContentNext Media, which publishes paidContent and several other sites.

The Guardian‘s debut iPad edition has been downloaded 145,880 times in the week since launch, making it more popular than the publisher’s iPhone and Android apps were in the same space of time, but not as popular as its new Facebook app.

Eighteen months after iPad launched and following a long gestation, The Guardian is finally on the verge of getting its iPad edition out the door.

The Guardian finally introduced on Wednesday an edition for the most used mobile platform, in an indication publishers may finally be catching up with Android.

The Guardian is the latest news outlet to get into e-singles publishing with “Guardian Shorts,” a series of “detailed guides to topical news stories, public policy, sports and cultural events” for sale on iTunes and Kindle. Several e-singles will be published each month. Not surprisingly, the first title in the…

This looks like an example of “Digital First” in action: today, the Guardian announced that it has launched a Kindle app, its first for the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) device, as it looks to extend its footprint to more wireless devices—a platform that already brings in 10 percent of all of…

Six months after revising its iPhone app on a subscription model, Guardian.co.uk is at two crossroads - 1) its first subscribers must this month consider whether to pay to renew, 2) Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will also this month start requiring 30 percent of what the publisher makes.

SEO consultant Malcolm Coles shares how much his spending on one news brand has crashed in the digital age…

The Guardian‘s new subscription iPhone app, which we reported on last week, has arrived in iTunes Store, joining its counterpart Mail Online in trying to eke subscription income from mobile readers…

We had expected The Guardian to move its popular iPhone app, which has a one-off £2.39 ($3.99) download price, to a recurring payment. Now the paper says it is introducing a new app, due in December, with two subscription pricepoints - £2.99 for six months’ access, and £3.99 per year.

By Josh Halliday: Caroline Little, the chief executive of Guardian News & Media’s US operation, is to step down from her role with the company. Little will remain chief executive of GNM’s New York-based digital media industry news subsidiary, ContentNext Media.

CNBC says it’s hiring Guardian News & Media’s mobile business manager Torsten de Riese to be its digital director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. De Riese had held the mobile post for just seven months, after working as a business development manager more generally for six years, trying to…

—Muse: Another band joining the app bandwagon: Muse is now offering fans an app on Apple’s App Store with music, a video archive, tour info, and access to the band’s fan forum. It also offers an aggregation feature for the most dedicated, collecting all Muse-related posts from sites like Twitter,…

It’s not exactly a great leap from publishing an iPhone app to offering one on the soon-to-be-released iPad - not only will the former run on the latter; the skillset for developing the latter won’t be significantly different. So publishers who have already found a degree of incremental revenue from…

Okay, that may be getting ahead of ourselves a little… Guardian.co.uk says it’s sold 68,979 copies of its premium iPhone app since launching in December. At £2.39 a pop in the UK (and $3.99 in U.S.), that’s £164.859 in income over the month, or, at that rate, £1.97 million (about…

Guardian.co.uk’s new iPhone app got some favourable reviews upon its release on Sunday night. Even more favourable - it shifted 9,000 in the first two days, Guardian News & Media told us. At £2.39 a pop in the UK, that’s £21,510 in 48 hours - or, assuming Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)…

Guardian News & Media has launched its paid-for iPhone app in a bid to corner the news app market in the UK, US and Ireland - and it’s looking into launching on other mobile platforms in future. As paidContent:UK revealed in September, GNM has been working on the app for…

—Guardian iPhone app: Guardian News & Media’s forthcoming paid-for iPhone app, news of which we broke in September, is being developed by 2ergo—the people behind Arsenal’s paid-for iPhone app—and will be priced at £1.79 for a one-off download, according NMA. Disclosure: paidContent:UK’s parent company ContentNext Media is a wholly owned…