Even though it has increasingly upstaged poetry and fiction, most book-length journalism is perishable.
Mr. Blum is the editor of Amazon Kindle Singles, a Web service that is helping to promote a renaissance of novella-length journalism and fiction, known as e-shorts.
And the Band Played On – a work of book-length journalism written as the Aids epidemic was unfolding in the United States – was not a work that examined events after time had passed.
"But won't this confuse our readers," ventures another publisher, "and even deceive them into reading brand propaganda when they're expecting arms-length journalism?" The devil has an answer for that, too.
The question is, are you also the sort of reader who believes professional novella-length journalism, imaginatively packaged in a way that leverages the capabilities of the digital format, is worth three bucks a pop?
But over at Bloomberg News, the reporters who originally set about bringing the complexities of the financial world into an open-source environment spent all year carrying on with their code breaking, and they routinely deliver the most clear-eyed, pom-pom-free, fact-dense, explained-at-length journalism on how the world was destroyed and what's being done to put it back together.
When I speak to Cometti myself we talk at length about gonzo journalism, The Carpenters, various JFK assassination conspiracies and his aborted documentary on the latter, which he'd started tackling in his final year at the ABC.
Instead of producing arm's-length, ostensibly objective journalism, Amy becomes a personal essayist, a memoirist.
We also launched the first year of the European Press Prize to encourage quality journalism through the length and breadth of the continent.
Updated | Monday | 3 59 p.m. On Thursday, the second day of Rupert Murdoch's testimony in London during a British inquiry into media ethics, he took a question about new regulations on the press to expound at some length on the future of journalism.
While Singles Classics don't seem to have a word limit specified (beyond being somewhat "essay-length"), they will focus on journalism, fiction and articles.
