You don’t need to be a media scholar to know that in a digital world, the landscape for print magazines has been challenging over the past decade-plus. According to IBIS World’s global magazine publishing market study, the category—worth $105.2 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magazine covers are portals. Done well, and they beg readers to step into another dimension—for ski magazines like POWDER, the exact contents of that dimension have varied over the years.

Much has changed since 2001, when creative director D.W. Pine produced his first cover for TIME. (That cover, for a story about online privacy, rendered a desktop computer as a heavy-duty lock.) In 2010, Steve Jobs showed up at Time Inc. to show off the ...