It may seem retrograde, but The Economist, like many publishers, is super-bullish about how digital tablets, more than websites, align perfectly with ye olde analogue print magazines’ best qualities.

On the heels of the Economist claiming one million monthly mobile readers of its magazine across Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Android devices, another magazine publisher is gearing up to join the seven-figure club: Hearst says it is on track to reach one million paying subscribers to its digital editions in…

The Economist said more than three million of its iOS and Android apps have been downloaded, as it reported six percent higher half-year operating profit of £26.2 ($40.49) million.

The Economist will next week revoke premium digital subscriptions from some users after realising it had been accidentally servicing them for free.

The Economist is finally moving to an iPad strategy compliant with Apple’s new developer terms, after what it calls “iOS bugs” under the new iOS 5 broke its non-compliant app edition.

The FT and Penguin are two of the most recognized brands among those owned by media giant Pearson (NYSE: PSO). But should the company sell them off to focus more on Education, its real growth engine of the moment? That seems to be the opinion of at least some analysts…

Aegis Media, the media buying and marketing division of Aegis Group, is beefing up its mobile assets and activity: it is taking an undisclosed minority stake, worth $11 million, in TigerSpike, a developer of apps for blue-chip publishers like News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). The Economist, Telegraph Media Group and Mail…

On June 30th, the French consortium ePresse opened its digital kiosk. Six months of hard work for a very small team (the ePresse consortium is a three persons operation: a CTO, a marketing person, and a manager), and still a long way to go. ePresse brought up eight titles: five…

Almost all British-based newspaper and magazine publishers are contemplating losses or declining profits. But the Economist group, as it does on a regular basis, is telling a very different story today.

*ABC* data is out today for UK autumn and winter magazine sales. The industry’s Periodical Publishers’ Association (PPA) optimistically sees “a continuing improvement in the demand” - but our research shows that’s not the whole story...

Fair to say, due to a combination of system complexity and ongoing iOS-mania, publishers have been slow to embrace Android. But here is a demo of a forthcoming The Economist app for upcoming Android tablets…

The Economist has got around to releasing an iPad (and iPhone) edition (expected Friday). Built by TigerSpike, which also built The Times’ Eureka iPad app, it contains all the print magazine’s material, in a UI that, whilst reminscent of the dead tree edition, is customised for the tablet.

In a sign that online distribution to tablets can take printed publications in to territories that were previously unreachable, The Economist is overcoming a distribution bottleneck by taking its Intelligent Life quarterly to the U.S. on iPad only.

On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at The Guardian’s Kings Place HQ. In this video, Andy hears from The Economist executive editor Daniel Franklin that the “book-like” experience of e-readers and iPads can reboot considered,…

Even if there wasn’t a recession this year, 2009 was always going to be a crunch year for B2B and consumer magazine publishers, given the pull of online media and social networking on their readers. So how have they fared? Awkwardly, publishers’ balance sheets show us…

Economist.com is taking two steps to charge for more content… —Already charging for articles older than 12 months, it’s extending the threshold to those over 90 days old.—And it’s making the digital print edition replica accessible only to subscribers. The press release calls this “experimentation with a new website pay…

It was in October, on stage at our Future Of Business Media conference, that The Economist publisher Paul Rossi first wondered about the resurrection of the online paid content model. Now the website, which, since 2007, has charged only for stories more than a year old, tells us MediaWeek’s report,…

—Newsquest re-launch: The Gannett-owned regional publisher has given a facelift to 150 of its newspaper websites, including Telegraphandargus.co.uk and Lancashiretelegraph.co.uk, adding more than four million previously print-only archived stories, as well as improved search and a new design. According to the latest magazine ABCs, Newsquest’s sites collectively attracted an average…

It was rare to see a printed-news publisher doing well financially before the recession, so its even more notable to see one making money now. For the year to March 31, Economist Group posted operating profits 26 percent higher than last year at £56 million and revenue 17 percent better…