Imagine having a 17-inch screen constantly at your disposal that lets you look up information online, check your e-mail or watch a movie--and that isn't attached to a laptop.
Not even Harry Potter could prevent a big drop in book sales in 2003. With a struggling economy and competition for time from other media, 23 million fewer books were sold last year than in 2002, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Book Industry Study Group, a non-for-profit research organization.
Tourists visiting New York's Times Square are blushing over a new Swatch watch billboard that features six pairs of rabbits in various sexual positions, according to a Local 6 News report.
Meredith Corp., publisher of Better Homes and Gardens and Ladies' Home Journal, has named publishing chief Stephen Lacy as its new president and chief operating officer.
For more than 30 years, from the New Frontier era through the first years of the Clinton administration, the erstwhile MCA/Universal was the most stable studio in Hollywood.
Playing video games is no longer just a pastime of young boys. Now it's also homework for American college students.
Hearst Magazines and Harpo Print LLC yesterday launched their first special issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, a 4-year-old title named after its founder, talk-show host Oprah Winfrey. Called O at Home, the newsstand-only issue aims to help readers decorate their home reflecting their own style with pointers from Winfrey. The magazine is one of many new shelter titles planned for this year, including Time Inc.'s Cottage Living and All You publications.
Viacom is playing down questions about executive succession raised in a Monday report in the New York Times.
Director Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Garry Trudeau will create a sequel to "Tanner '88," their television series satirizing the U.S. presidential campaign, to run before the November election, the Sundance Channel said on Monday.
New York magazine's new editor-in-chief, Adam Moss, began swinging the ax yesterday, turning again to his former employer, The New York Times, for replacement staff.