Wired and GQ magazine publisher Condé Nast is amongst those now seeking a cost-effective cross-platform tablet production workflow for the blossoming number of new devices, after earlier implementing an iPad-specific strategy. The publisher pioneered tablet magazines when it built out an early iPad design on Adobe Digital Publishing Suite in 2010. But now Nook, Kindle Fire and multiple Android tablets and mobiles of various shapes, which would compel additional production investment, are requiri...

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has turned off the buy button on nearly 5,000 Kindle titles from distributor Independent Publishers Group after IPG refused to capitulate to Amazon’s demand for better terms. Updated: IPG’s full memo to publishers on page 2. The story was first reported by Publishers Marketplace and was confirmed by IPG President Mark Suchomel, who told me, “We’re offering [the e-book sales terms] we offered last week, and somehow they think it’s not quite good enough.” As IPG’s contract with...

Verizon’s continuing struggle to keep its LTE network running consistently has landed it in the news again. Wednesday morning, Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) reported on its Twitter feed that it is looking into customer complaints about its 4G service going down, and Engadget and Phandroid are reporting network outages in several markets ranging from Phoenix, Ariz., to Indianapolis, Ind. Read the full post on GigaOm...

Seeking to advance the narrative that the Nook Tablet is a true multimedia tablet and not just a big expensive e-reader, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch said in an investor call today that apps are the company’s fastest-growing content area, and “within apps it’s entertainment, movies, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), games, kids.” Apps are “huge,” Lynch said in the call following this morning’s earnings report. Angry Birds is still the company’s most-downloaded app, while Netflix “toggles bet...

Hoping to compete against the $199 Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has a new $199 tablet, the not-so-catchily-named Nook Tablet—8 GB. With the release, which coincides with Barnes & Noble’s Q3 2012 earnings report this morning, the company drops the older Nook Color’s price to $169. The Nook Tablet—16 GB, released in November, remains $249. SEE ALSO: Report: Barnes & Noble To Release Lower-End Nook Tablet On Feb. 22 The launch of the $199 device is a sign that Barnes & Noble is strugglin...

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) hopes to advance a narrative of momentum and the power of bricks-and-mortar bookstores in its third-quarter earnings report this morning, which coincides with the launch of a $199 Nook Tablet. The Nook business is struggling to compete against Amazon’s Kindle, and despite some gains it missed analyst estimates. Revenues were $2.4 billion, up 5 percent from last year, with earnings of $52 million on $0.71 per share—lower than analysts’ estimated $1.01 per share but, acc...