Magazine world view: Cosmo networks; Forbes layoffs;big pubs cooperate;UK postal strike goes

• Cosmopolitan launched sponsored social media program (Audience Development)
• The New York Observer editor leaving afer five months on the job (NYO) 
• UK libraries add ebooks (PSFK)  
• Former Travel Weekly journalist launches web start-up (Press Gazette)
• Forbes layoffs decimate staff (FishbowlNY)
• The value of online content: practically nothing (Folio:)
• Big pubs looking for strength in numbers (Folio:) 
  
• Esquire spends six figures on internactive print edition (paidContent)
• UK Postal strike to go ahead today as talks end without agreement (Brand Republic)
• American Photo redesigned (SPD Grids)
• Nieman Journalism Lab turns 1 (Nieman)