Byliner, which aimed to find a new model for selling longform journalism online, crashed and burned this summer. Now the NYC-based digital publishing site Vook has acquired it. Read more »
Trendy eyeglasses maker Warby Parker is sponsoring an e-single at long-form nonfiction web publisher The Atavist, offering free reads for a month. Read more »
On Thursday, Amazon launched a new series on Kindle Singles that will feature long interviews with famous people. The first one is with the president of Israel and was produced in… Read more »
Barnes & Noble will start commissioning original works for Nook Snaps, its e-singles section. For the first 60 days, authors keep 100 percent of the royalties; after that, the royalty rate… Read more »
The Atlantic is launching an ebooks division that will publish e-singles and curated collections of content from the magazine’s archives. The first e-single is only available through Amazon’s Kindle Singles store… Read more »
Read Petite, an e-singles subscription site, will launch in the U.K. this fall. Waterstones founder Tim Waterstone is chairman. The site was founded by literary agent Peter Cox and consultant Martyn… Read more »