Though they could’ve fooled me, Barnes & Noble apparently isn’t content to let ebooks and digital mags be a two-horse race between Amazon and Apple. They just made a big hire in Jonathan Shar, from Time, who’s going to be running their “Digital Newsstand and Emerging Content, Barnes & Noble.com”…
Normally the closure of two bridal magazines, a dining magazine and a mum magazine wouldn’t be notable; except that this time their publisher, Conde Nast, notes that they’re going to focus on digital distribution instead.