The consumer draw of free apps over paid apps has been well-documented, and so has the rise of in-app payments as a route to making money from those free apps. New research out today predicts that in-app purchases will, in fact, become the most dominant way that app developers will…

In Barnes & Noble’s largest Nook promotion yet, the bookstore chain is offering discounted or free Nooks to those who purchase one-year subscriptions to the Nook editions of People or the New York Times. It’s the first time a major retailer has offered an e-reader free with a content subscription.

Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. and abroad. Now as newspaper readers move to new platforms like tablets to consume their news content, the AP wants to make sure it is syndicating…

Amazon’s Kindle Fire continues to draw interest from publishing companies, including ones who have already embraced Android tablets. This time, USA Today has decided to launch a specialized app for the Kindle Fire despite having already developed an Android tablet application.

This is the last in a series of posts that highlighted key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cover most, from publishing to legal, and from mobile to advertising. Not too long ago, TV Everywhere was a bold concept being evangelized by Time Warner…

Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source - but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says.

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) reached an agreement to sell its Regional Media Group, which consists of 16 newspapers and some other print publications and related businesses, to Halifax Media Holdings for $143 million in cash.

Nearly 10 percent of traffic to UK newspaper websites comes from non-computer devices—that’s the highest in the world, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) Device Essentials research in Ofcom’s International Communications Market Report 2011.

Among the Target, Best Buy and Radio Shack ads bundled with my Saturday New York Times this morning is a surprise: an 8-page circular from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) advertising the company’s new free one-day shipping offer. Update: Some readers tell me they have seen Amazon circulars in their Sunday papers…

The latest Flipboard-esque print-like tablet aggregator comes from the publisher of the most read newspaper in the west.

As it has done on its website, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is experimenting with a mix of free and paid content through its standalone news apps. The newspaper’s new “Election 2012” political news iPhone app is free to download, but most of its content is only available to…

After demonstrating how tablets trump smartphones and PCs for leisurely and long-form reading, iPad’s new wave of magazine-like content aggregators is now heading to the smaller screen.

In the hopes of saving money while avoiding consolidation, MediaNews Group is introducing “digital-first Mondays” at six of its California newspapers. Of those papers, the three that have paywalls will make all web content free on Mondays, and print subscribers will no longer have to pay an additional cost for…

As tablets become more of a increasingly popular household fixture, the companies that package content for the devices continue make their own upgrades. Flipboard, often seen as the top dog among news aggregation apps, recently added an iPhone app, multiple accounts and larger social media footprint. Meantime, some new apps…

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has a substantial operation in China, but it has yet to take its Kindle e-reader into that market. That has left the door open for several other players to make a move into country’s market for e-books. The latest news in that department is that mobile handset…

The New York Times is ready to start extending sales of its “all access” digital subscriptions across tablets and smartphones to companies and organizations with more than 50 employees. The introduction of a new structure of paid digital circulation comes as the promotion that gave 100,000 NYT digital subscribers access…

Magazine and news publishers who have not yet joined iOS Newsstand have lost out to the system’s early adopters, according to research data.

Longreads founder Mark Armstrong is bringing his long-form journalism curation skills to Read It Later, where he is signing on as editorial advisor.

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…