[LINK] Guardian Shorts eBook Series

[Tom Worthington]

The UK's Guardian Newspaper is conducting an interesting experiment in 
on-line publishing with its Guardian Shorts. These are a series of 
eBooks, sold via the Amazon Kindle and Apple iTunes stores. These have 
commentary on current events, and are up to 30,000 words each, costing 
less than £4. The first is "Phone Hacking: How the Guardian broke the 
story", 5 August 2011: http://www.guardian.co.uk/mobile/guardian-shorts-faq

Newspapers repackaging material for educational purposes is not new, but 
doing this as an eBook may provide a whole new market. However, it 
remains to be seen if the content is any better than that free on-line. 
As an example the Wikipedia's "News International phone hacking 
scandal", is 14,000 carefully written, researched, referenced and most 
likely less biased, words, for free: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal


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