Amazon launches Kindle Fire tablet that will have Apple looking over its shoulder

Magazine people seem to divide into two, neat camps: those who look at tablets as the devil's work; and those who think they will be the salvation of their publications (and a great way to serve readers, to boot).
We think both camps will be interested, for their own reasons, in the announcement today of the Kindle Fire, Amazon's tablet that may give Apple a run for its iPad. It was reported in a

Founder says he'll put an "American Spring" in Salon.com's step

David Talbot
Salon.com, which can reasonably claim to have been the very first standalone online magazine is undergoing a complete relaunch under the direction of the man who started it.
Former editor in chief and online news pioneer David Talbot returns at CEO, six years after he left, and says that the money-losing site (said to have lost $15 million in the three years ending 2010) is going

VICEmagazine launches new online video-driven site; my, how you've grown

VICE magazine has launched VICE.com, announced plans to launch a series of stand-alone online media channels ans struck new content syndication deals (it retains its deal with CNN) through partnerships with The Huffington Post/AOL, Der Spiegel, Aftonbladet, the Guardian, Terra, Renren, CCTV, MTV Brasil, Youku and others. It's a long way from its beginnings as a feisty youth culture magazine in

American digital magazines ranked in terms of trust, interest and believability

Research from Affinity LLC indicates the leaders among American digital magazine brands in terms of various attributes among 170 titles considered by readers. This, according to a story in Folio:
Most Trusted: WebMD the Magazine
Most Entertaining: Maxim
Most Useful: Cooking Light
Most Innovative: Dwell
Most Believable: Guideposts
Most Topical: The Atlantic
Most Authoritative: The Economist

Adobe & CDS Global deal means print subscribers can get tablet content seamlessly

CDS Global has partnered with Adobe Systems Incorporated to develop technology that will allow "device agnostic" merchandising of digital content for print magazine subscribers. According to a story in Audience Development, the partnership means CDS (which operates the largest magazine fulfillment company in Canada) can enable print subscribers to access tablet content seamlessly from

British Vogue study says glossy readers mix print and digital in "heightened engagement"

Research recently released by Condé Nast in Britain says that readers of glossy magazines aimed at women are increasingly mixing their consumption of printed and digital titles, but using each for different purposes. Media Week reports that the study, commissioned by flagship Vogue, found that glossy readers are using both print and online titles distinctly.The study said the number of women

HP creates a digital magazine called Pivot to sell apps

Hewlett-Packard is fighting an uphill battle in trying to get some attention paid to its new tablet computer, the TouchPad, which will be available from Canadian retailers July 15. So what does it use as a means of raising awareness, according to a post by the Los Angeles Times? It creates a magazine; more specifically a monthly digital magazine called Pivot that will spotlight the apps available

How are the big US magazine publishers faring with their apps?

PaidContent.org has compiled a table of information about the magazine apps being developed by the big-4 magazine publishers Condé Nast, Hearst, Time Inc., Meredith. It details types of apps, with examples of each and some data on pricing.In its introduction, it says that publishers are putting a lot of faith in apps and said the compilation was an attempt to show what they've got for their

Digital is the hot ticket globally, says PwC outlook, but non-digital (like print) is two-thirds of revenue

Growth in advertising revenue across all media in the next 5 years will predominantly be digital, according to the annual global entertainment and media outlook prepared by the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Overall entertainment and media revenues worldwide are forecast by the firm to increase by about 5.7% annually. Advertising, which slumped 11% in 2009 as the result of the recession,

Learning how to work together in the digital newsroom at Forbes

It may be of great interest to people who are trying to organize the management and generation of digital and print content to take a look at the new Forbes newsroom. Columnist and blogger Lewis Dvorkin outlines in a post the four different "teams": audience development; web producers; channel product managers (who often also create content for the print magazine); and advertising.The data forms

Design Edge magazine launches paid iPad and iPhone editions

 Design Edge magazine has launched an iPad and iPhone verison of its bimonthly print publication, effective with its May/June 2011 issue (current). According to a story in Masthead, Design Edge's sister (online) title, the launch is timed for the May/June cover story about "Design and the move to mobile". The tablet edition was produced through Canadian magazine distributor Disticor, which has

e-Readers estimated to be owned by 12% of U.S. consumers by end of 2012

By 2012, 12% of U.S. adults will have some sort of e-reader -- a Kindle, Sony Reader, NOOK or similar device -- according to estimates by eMarketer. By the end of this year, there will be more than 20 million readers in consumers' hands. The information assumes that there is no sharing of devices, but Nielsen reported last year that about a third of e-reader owners share with at least one other

Preview of Next Issue Media digital newsstand for U.S. titles now online

A consortium of five major U.S. magazine publishers who formed Next Issue Media in 2009 have finally unveiled their "digital newsstand". According to a story in MediaDailyNews, a preview is available exclusively on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.0, but will be introduced as a standalone app later this year.Next Issue Media was formed by Conde Nast, Hearst Corp., Meredith, News Corp., and Time Inc. with

A river, a flood, a tidal wave of information

Information over the web has grown more than 50% today, compared with a year ago, according to a new survey by Magnify.net,  reported by MediaPost. The sheer volume is partly the result of always being "on" and partly the result of proliferating numbers of devices and services. (In a paradoxical way, this may work to the advantage of magazine editors and publishers who curate, filter and package