Magazine News Round-Up: Bookazines, Possible HGTV Magazine and the Hollywood Issue

Hi:) Usually magazine publishers launch new web sites from their tried-and-true print brands. Mediaweek reports the opposite seems to be a trend with publishers lately. Hearst is releasing a bookazine tomorrow called Light & Delish based on the food site Delish; the publisher will released a handful of bookazines last year and will publish more this year.

In the meantime, Meredith, publisher of Family Circle, Ladies Home Journal and Parents magazine among others, will publish a second issue this year of a magazine based on Mixing Bowl.com, its online food social network.

New York magazine's Daily Intel blog reports that Hearst is in talks with HGTV to launch a new magazine. We're sure Hearst is looking to repeat the wildly-successful business model of its Food Network magazine. Like the Food Network Channel, Scripps also owns HGTV.

Lastly, Vanity Fair magazine’s annual "Hollywood Issue," which features photos by Annie Leibovitz of up-and-coming actors on newsstands in New York and L.A. on February 3, will hit newsstands nationwide next week, on February 9. This year's cover is a bit of a yawner with actresses Kristen Stewart, Abbie Cornish and Carey Mulligan.