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…

Consumer Reports, which named the iPad the top tablet earlier this year, is now adding subscriptions and free access for print subscribers to its iPad app. As part of its ongoing strategy to reach younger readers, it is also releasing seven new smartphone apps, including one that scans barcodes for…

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

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…

Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is expanding its magazines’ presence on the Nook Newsstand. Starting today, print subscribers to Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated, and Time will be able to read the Nook editions of those magazines for free (as they can on the iPad and other tablets). Time Inc. plans to…

E-singles are one of the hottest new publishing trends—with everyone from David Baldacci and Jodi Picoult to Byliner and Slate testing them out. These bite-sized e-books, priced accordingly, could be a panacea for authors and publishers seeking new revenue streams. E-singles are a much more effective way to tackle newsy…

Time magazine is rolling out an “all access” subscription plan that gives current print subscribers complete use of the title’s content across all its digital versions, including its apps on the iPad, HP (NYSE: HPQ) Touchpad and Samsung Galaxy Tab. The move reflects the unwillingness of most readers to pay…

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.

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…

Josh Quittner, Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) director of digital editorial development for news, sports, and business, is leaving the print magazine world for a startup: Flipboard, the social magazine iPad app. He will be Flipboard’s first editorial director.

Content publishers are facing difficult choices about how to direct often limited resources to a growing number of platforms and business models. Which mobile strategy makes the most sense? This morning at pC Mobile 2011, Tom Krazit, mobile editor at paidContent and mocoNews, talked with Fran Hauser, President of Time…

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…

One way publishers could skirt Apple’s 30 percent commission - just don’t offer new subscriptions through apps. That’s what Time (NYSE: TWX) Inc.‘s Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Time - like People before them - did last week, meaning their app editions merely grant access to existing print subscribers.

Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Time (NYSE: TWX) and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) reach a “free content” deal; more possible details on Apple’s cloud strategy; Huawei sues ZTE; and a pulse check on free apps.

Sports Illustrated’s newest digital product launches today—without a standalone iPad app. Based on a framework developed for use across Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX), SI will showcase its photography with ad-supported Front Row as an app on the iPhone, Android devices with *Adobe* Air, on Chrome through its web app SI…

While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are battling it out to woo publishers with their in-app payment services, I asked major content publishers at Mobile World Congress for their take on native in-app payments, and what it might mean to their own business models. The bottom line: of…

Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is rolling out a mobile campaign for tomorrow’s Sports Ilustrated “Swimsuit Edition” aimed at connecting print readers with their smartphones through the use of 2D barcodes via Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Tags placed by mobile tech company Nellymoser.

Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) unveiled its new “All Access” digital subscription model for Sports Illustrated:  one monthly or annual price for print delivery and complete use on their PC and—and for now—Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android-powered mobile devices. It’s the second subscription offering this week; SI, Time magazine, Fortune and People…