On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, another magazine publisher is gearing up to join the seven-figure club: Hearst says it is on track to reach one million paying subscribers to its digital editions in…

Next Issue Media, the digitized magazine and newspaper newsstand, has added several more titles from company backers Hearst and Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) to its preview edition and struck new distribution agreements with several mobile device makers. However, as it prepares for its full-feature product release for some time in…

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) have sent out so many press releases about their respective upcoming tablets this week that I have begun to imagine both devices snapping back and forth at each other like squabbling children. In the latest round of this, Amazon is launching…

Hearst’s sale of a majority stake in its niche entertainment topics site/app collection LMK to digital holding company Black Ocean may not have been the biggest deal the company made this year. But it does highlight the ways that Hearst, and other major publishers, are looking beyond operating editorial properties…

Condé Nast is the latest publisher to claim a boom in digital magazine sales from the launch of Apple’s Newsstand two weeks: the publisher of Glamour, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Wired says that new subscription sales, per week, across all nine digital editions, was up 268 percent, with…

Hearst hopes that its snack-size Good Housekeeping “mini cookbooks,” which it is selling for $0.99 on Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Nook, will entice readers to purchase more expensive e-cookbooks. The company is also experimenting with minis for other properties, including Cosmopolitan—joining the growing list of publishers who are releasing e-singles.

With newspapers having suffered through 20 straight quarters of decline—and no end in sight—a collaborative effort on the part of the Associated Press and 40 newspapers is designed to play on two of the industry’s last advertising strengths: digital and pre-print circulars.

New device opportunities should allow Hearst to drive its digital revenue model away from advertising reliance, and toward 50/50 equivalence with readers’ payments, the publisher’s president, David Carey, told the paidContent Advertising conference.

Another interesting digital acquisition by R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., the Chicago publishing services company that picked up Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz’s Press+ earlier this year. Seeking to cement its 21st century image as a “global provider of integrated communications,” Donnelly is adding LibreDigital, a pioneer in digital publishing…

Magazine joint venture Next Issue Media is adding six titles to its digital storefront on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android-powered Samsung Galaxy as it unveils an integrated app that allows users to keep their digital reads from any participating magazine in a single place.

Oprah sold millions of books through her Book Club. Now she has the chance to do the same through O, The Oprah Magazine‘s iPad app: The July iPad issue of O features an enhanced version of O‘s sixth annual Summer Reading List. iPad users can read exclusive excerpts of 21…

Magazine publishers are putting a lot of faith in apps, building development teams and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (in some cases, much more) to launch them. Last week, Hearst unveiled its new app lab. Meanwhile, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) recently changed its terms to allow magazine publishers to experiment…

Next Issue Media, the major magazine and newspaper joint venture, is officially opening its “digital storefront” on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android-powered Samsung Galaxy, the portable device that’s one part iPad, one part Kindle. The first titles out of the gate include Hearst Magazines’ Esquire and Popular Mechanics, Meredith’s Fitness…

Conde Nast takes an important step this week towards finding a rational tablet subscription plan, albeit one that includes a significant cut for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The New Yorker is now available for subscription on the iPad at $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year. At the same time, print…

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: the EU opens GSM frequencies for 4G services; Sony* Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) reports earnings; Mobile Content Venture details launch plans for its mobile TV service in 32 U.S. markets; the first white iPhone 4 finally “on sale”; Nokia (NYSE:…

The notion that the iPad was going to save newspapers and magazines had been diminishing somewhat lately, especially since publishers have tended to regard Apple’s 70/30 revenue split for digital subscriptions coupled. Not to mention Apple’s continued refusal to share substantive consumer data. But with iPad 2 coming Friday, publishers’…

All talk these days is about Google/Android and Apple/iOS, but here’s a nifty infographic that underscores just how fragmented the picture really is for which mobile phone browsers dominate.

Next Issue Media, the newspaper and magazine publishing JV, has been slowly putting itself together for the past year and is almost ready to finally launch its digital newsstand. In an interview with the WSJ, CEO Morgan Guenther says the JV will release two digital products from four of its…

When it launched last year, the iPad was hailed as the fresh-faced savior of the beleaguered and tired publishing industry. That idea looks like it may have been put to bed for now: the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations reveal that publishing magazines for tablets and other…