Electronic versions of magazines look like the Way of the Future—whether it’s the much-heralded “iTunes for magazines” team effort, or Hachette’s solo adventures in a similar direction.
But do people really want to read magazines on their iPhones? Maybe not, reports The Business Insider. Neither the Esquire nor GQ Read More
A few weeks ago, Hearst Corp’s Esquire announced that they’d debut a snazzy new “augmented reality” issue and be the first publication to take the relatively new technology into its pages. AR, the hot new trend in iPhone apps, layers data, images and video Read More
This December, Esquire releases its “Augmented Reality Issue.”
“Augmented Reality” means that holding black-and-white squares in the magazine up to a computer’s camera triggers online content, thus augmenting the reality of a print magazine with the promise of brief web videos.
On the cover, poor Robert Downey Jr. straddles a sticker that unlocks Read More
Former Esquire owner Christopher Whittle‘s plans for a Durst-developed, for-profit private school on the far, far West Side, which were hobbled by the collapse of financing, are back on track now that Mr. Whittle has found new funding for the project.
Douglas Durst revealed the project’s resumption to the Commercial Observer‘s Jotham Sederstrom in an Read More
Random House surprised the publishing industry Monday with the hiring of GQ executive editor Andy Ward, who will be joining the editorial staff of the house’s flagship imprint in mid-September. Though Mr. Ward began his career in letters as an editorial assistant at Little, Brown, he has spent the past 13 years working in Read More
Last week, Fortune reported that Hearst will soon unveil its own version of the Kindle: a portable, wireless electronic reader you can use to download all the contents of Esquire or Cosmopolitan. Though Hearst will develop it, it’ll be available for other publishers to use for their own content. Is this the future? Magazines making Read More
In the March 2009 issue of Esquire, Tom Junod profiles Fox News’ Shepard Smith in a piece headlined Because They Hate Shepard Smith and Want Him to Fail.
Right up front in the article—a companion piece, of sorts, to the What I’ve Learned feature the magazine did with Mr. Smith in December Read More
Ever wonder what Mad Money and TheStreet.com‘s Jim Cramer was like as a kid? Sure you do!
According to Esquire‘s Scott Raab—whom you may recall controversially reported on the zombie scourge in Newark last year—Mr. Cramer was not unlike young Chas Tenenbaum from Wes Anderson’s 2001 movie The Royal Tenenbaums. Read More
Who was left standing after Random House’s reorganization? According to Leon Neyfakh, Sonny Mehta, whose Knopf now oversees several new imprints. "Whatever role Mr. Mehta had in getting what he got, the spoils reaped—from the unspeakably lucrative John Grisham franchise to the next blockbuster by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown—were evident immediately." Read More
Remember when Esquire had that big, flashy cover back in October? It promised big things! “The 21st Century BEGINS NOW” shouted its cover line, and if you were lucky enough to have the electronic version, it flashed all night.
And now that we’re finally a couple months into the 21st century, how does it Read More
