{"id":655506,"date":"2013-05-01T09:05:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/?p=228784"},"modified":"2013-05-01T09:05:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:05:42","slug":"the-atlantic-launches-a-new-ebook-division-will-sell-e-singles-and-curated-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/655506","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic launches a new ebook division; will sell e-singles and curated collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic is launching a new line of ebooks, “The Atlantic Books,” which will include both “original long-form pieces between 10,000 and 30,000 words, and curated archival collections that span the magazine’s 155-year history and feature some of the best-loved voices in American letters.”<\/p>\n

The Atlantic Books is the first in a number of planned paid initiatives, the company said, and “details about the next product will be announced in coming weeks.”<\/p>\n

The Atlantic Books’ focus on nonfiction e-singles puts it in competition with companies like Byliner and The Atavist, which publish similar works. The Atlantic’s first ebook, a memoir called\u00a0Denial<\/em> by Jonathan Rauch, is available today for $1.99 exclusively through Amazon’s Kindle Singles store<\/a>, though The Atlantic says it will “soon” also be sold by Nook, the iBookstore and Kobo.
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“The launch of The Atlantic Books reflects our commitment to innovation in publishing in the service of great journalism and storytelling,” The Atlantic president M. Scott Havens said in a statement. The Atlantic senior editor Geoffrey Gagnon is overseeing the initiative.<\/p>\n

In other evidence of The Atlantic’s focus on long-form journalism, the company recently partnered with Longreads<\/a> to feature Longreads content across its sites.<\/p>\n

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