Magazines also in the game

We've talked about how natural it is for newspapers to become ebook publishers. Now let's talk about magazines. The same rules apply. After all newspapers, I mean, magazines, have content, talented writers and self-defined audiences. The Atlantic, the magazine, is launching a new line of ebooks, “The Atlantic Books,” which will include “original long-form pieces between 10,000 and 30,000 words." Paid Content also reports content will include "curated archival collections that span the magazine’s 155-year history and feature some of the best-loved voices in American letters.” The Atlantic Books’ first ebook, a memoir called Denial by Jonathan Rauch, is available for $1.99 exclusively through Amazon’s Kindle Singles store, though The Atlantic says it will “soon” also be sold by Nook, the iBookstore and Kobo.