Media Pioneers Bank on Futuristic 'Book' Technology

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Ryan Tate

09/07/11 05:00PM

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Uber nerd website ArsTechnica has one. Amazon is guiding web savvy writers toward them. And now even the electronic newspaper of the future, the Huffington Post, has one. Meet the so-called "book," heir apparent to the future of media.

Internet cyberpaper the Huffington Post today released a Kindle and iPad book, DC journalist Arthur Delaney's "People's History of the Great Recession," dramatically announced as "The Huffington Post's First eBook." In July, Condé Nast made $15,000 in the first 24 hours it sold a "Kindle Single" ebook that packaged up a review of the latest version of Mac OS X John Siracusa, a well regarded contributor to Condé's computer geek website ArsTechnica. And just a couple of weeks ago, former New York Times contributor Mike Albo released a roman à clef called "The Junket" that has received a slew of positive notices. So consider getting in on this whole book trend. There might be a future in it!

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gulag 09/07/11 05:13PM

Until they release an eBook that I can hollow out and store a flask in, I ain't interested.

PinkGloopGlop 09/07/11 05:38PM

Or a giant centerfold rolling paper with a naked chick on it.. Man.

GetSomeMore 09/07/11 05:50PM

The eBook should be an actual working flask!

bawheid 09/07/11 06:22PM

On the plus side, it has made me less afraid of assassination by a bogus priest carrying a pistol inside a hollowed out bible.

k8890 09/08/11 09:27AM

My whole life I have always wanted to conquer War and Peace and so I have begun with my Kindle. I can't tell you how much I wish I had a shot of vodka every 50 or 60 pages or so! This is a great idea!

mozzy 09/07/11 07:30PM

Are we, the great unwashed, allowed to release Kindle Singles or is that only for already-famous authors like Stephen King and Christopher Hitchens?

Diabolique 09/07/11 10:58PM

I'm pretty sure the unwashed masses can do it too.

Makidian 09/08/11 12:04AM

There was a young urban fantasy writer who put her books on the Kindle Marketplace for $.99 and made a killing on it and the sequels. Eventually she signed on with a publisher for a new series for various reasons, one of them being wanting to see her books on a shelf in a bookstore, and you can't really fault her logic. Anyway, yes you can put your book or whatever up for sale and Amazon gets a cut. It's something that should be considered for sure and an option that I will weigh myself when the time is right.

Acts of Swine 09/07/11 05:32PM

I'm surprised the HuffPoo one isn't called "It's all about MEEEEEEEEEE MEEEEE MEEEEEEE" and has a centrefold of the old battleaxe.

Edward McBragg 09/07/11 06:00PM

Julia Allison moved to Chicago.

ExBomb 09/07/11 08:20PM

How's a terrorist going to detonate an eBook bomb?