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Last year, magazine executives spent much of their time detailing how they planned to take their brands digital. Now,five major magazines are teaming up on a multimillion-dollar campaign touting the 'power of print.' " />

Sports Illustrated hasn't come to Apple's iPad yet, but the publisher is already showing off a new version of its future: A digital magazine designed with Google in mind. Here's the demo that Editor Terry McDonell gave at Google's I/O developer conference today.

Online magazines need to do more than just replicate print versions with added multimedia.  Need to think about platform specific design.

Fortune magazine will publish just 18 issues a year, down from 25, as it looks to cut costs in the ad slump. Cuts at other Time Inc. publications are expected." />

Two of the big three business magazines that have survived and thrived for decades spent the month either cutting staff or issues.

Some of the magazine industry's biggest names are on the verge of forming a new company that would allow them to take the digital future into their own hands.

Sorry, this didn't seem to bookmark the first time. But it looks like niche magazines are getting hit hard by lost advertising revenue.

In tough times, some publishers lean on each other to get by.

Gabe Rivera, founder of news aggregator Techmeme. Credit: Mark Milian/Los Angeles Times.Don't tell News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, but technology news aggregator Techmeme is raking in profits. Rather than visiting the front pages of every newspaper or choosing a few out of brand loyalty, as Murdoch hopes consumers will do, aggregators put all of the Web's big headlines of the moment onto one page. There's no shortage in news aggregation. General news readers might go to Google News, a computer-generated engine that pulls in more than 25,000 newspaper websites and authoritative blogs. Left-leaning political consumers might visit the Huffington Post; right-leaning...

Experimenting with new business models in epubs: "For the first time, customers can subscribe to unlimited reading of as many as 32 titles from five different publishers through one app, with one user interface, at one price."

A new Wall Street Journal local section may win ads from the NYT.

With a new tablet device, Steve Jobs is betting he can reshape businesses like textbooks, newspapers and television much the way his iPod revamped the music industry-and expand Apple's influence and revenue as a content middleman." />