Claiming it was a name “that, frankly, we never really loved,” Lisa Belkin—the former editor of New York Times (NYSE: NYT) parenting blog “Motherlode,” and the new editor of the Huffington Post’s similarly named (and NYT-contested) parenting blog “Parentlode”—announced that the Huffington Post will change Parentlode’s name to one decided…

I’ve been sucked into image collecting and sharing site Pinterest for hours on end, but my NYC location makes me a less than typical user: New statistics from Experian Hitwise suggest the average Pinterest user is more likely to live in the Southeast or Northwest than the average social network…

In fashion, they say, what goes around comes around. Now designers, fashionistas and historians—as well as advertisers and the simply curious—can browse Vogue’s new digital archive for inspiration. It contains every page of every U.S. issue of Vogue published since the magazine launched in 1892, indexed and searchable. A yearly…

Fathom, the travel site launched by two former Daily Candy editors earlier this year, is expanding its commerce side with a shop of travel-themed products and will soon allow visitors to book travel directly from the site.

More women are using tablets as the devices become more popular, according to new stats from eMarketer, but men aren’t making it up on the e-reader side: The company forecasts that women will continue to make up the majority of e-reader users through 2014. And the company has revised its…

Food52, the cooking site founded by New York Times food writer Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is moving into apps just a couple weeks after the publication of its crowdsourced cookbook. Food52 has a new holiday cooking iPad app and a free cooking hotline iPhone app.

Speaking at Liberty Media’s annual investor meeting this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch said the company expects the size of the print book market to decrease by a third by 2015, while the e-book market grows by 700 percent—and B&N sees itself taking larger shares of…

Aspiring writers come to Book Country, Penguin Group USA’s online genre fiction community, to post and workshop their romance, science fiction/fantasy, thriller and mystery manuscripts in progress. Now Book Country is adding a self-publishing option, with packages ranging from $99 to $549. While companies like HarperCollins have launched their own…

When Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch introduced the Simple Touch Reader this past May, he described it as an e-reader easy enough for your grandmother to use. She may not be the intended audience for the new Nook Tablet—but who, exactly, is? It was hard to tell…

There’s this little tablet called the Kindle Fire that has been getting some press recently, but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is forging ahead anyway: The company is holding a press conference on Monday at which it is widely expected to announce the new Nook Color tablet. How will Barnes…

This month, Lisa Belkin announced that she was leaving her popular parenting blog at the New York Times, Motherlode, to launch a parenting blog at the Huffington Post. The name of the new Huffington Post blog is Parentlode, and the NYT is not happy.

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.

What does content mean for online retailers, and how can publishers successfully work commerce into their websites? Those were the questions discussed at a Financial Times panel in NYC last night. “There are lots of things that merge between media businesses and 2.0 commerce,” said Susan Lyne, chairman of Gilt…

Yet again, research suggests that women love e-readers and men prefer tablets. A new study from Nielsen finds that 61 percent of e-reader owners are now female, compared to 46 percent in the third quarter of 2010. And, the company says, 30 percent of e-reader owners are over the age…

Women’s magazines have long recommended specific beauty products, and online-only publications like Lonny include buy links for featured products. Now Condé Nast’s Allure.com is taking the concept a step further: The women’s beauty magazine is relaunching its website and teaming up with Quidsi properties Soap.com and BeautyBar.com to allow users…

In its ongoing quest to enable bridezillas around the world, The *Knot* parent company XO Group Inc. is expanding its presence in China’s $62 billion wedding market. XO’s Ijie.com, a portal providing Western-style content about weddings, relationships and pregnancy to the Chinese consumer, has partnered with Chinese online media company…

A recent Fox News article asking, “So are men iPads and women Nooks?” raised my hackles….especially when the piece went on to say, “Nooks are smaller, lighter, and fit in a purse more comfortably…Conversely, iPads are big and heavy and make [the] statement: I’m into tech.” (Come on, are iPads…

OK, Groupon now has its exit plan. Who else in the daily-deals world is creating momentum? It’s increasingly big business—daily-deal sites are expected to generate $2.7 billion in revenue this year, and BIA/Kelsey estimates the market could reach $4 billion by 2015. But it’s also become an extremely crowded business,…

Don’t Say a Word by bestselling romance/suspense novelist Barbara Freethy was published by Penguin/NAL imprint Signet in 2005, but soon went out of print. In the past, that would have meant the end of the book’s sales—and future readers would never have had the chance to follow the book’s heroine,…