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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.' " />

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

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." />

National news outlets' battle to provide local news and win local advertisers is suddenly heating up fast between the Wall St. Journal and New York Times.

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.

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...

Apparently in some places, the move to digital has been more pervasive than estimated.

The New York Times added 281,000 digital subscribers in its most recent quarter - enough to keep its overall circulation revenues flat, but not enough to offset a drop in advertising.

This book is customizable with photos and videos so it literally becomes a time capsule. 

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."

End times for e-book DRM?

New book titles published this year, based on statistics from UNESCO. Real time data broken down by country.

More disheartening news about newspapers.

This author is using Google Drive/Docs to write and edit her book for everyone to see.

Interesting piece on the challenges for first time authors