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This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories

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Re: This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories

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So much for ever shortening attention spans.

Good riddance.

If this becomes a business case to bring back something closer to real journalism, it is a good day. The NSA/prism story is really well-suited to this format. Connect the Guardian interview to administration concessions to POTUS conference. Would have been more valuable to the public than the soap-opera story that developed around Snowden's asylum seeking.

Re: This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories

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Since I became wedded to my Kindle for consuming journalism thanks to the superb sites such as http://longreads.org and http://longform.org * my reading time has exploded, plus I pay for services where possible as I am in need of their curation. Since using these sites I feel better informed about the world and I have a deep, deep respect for longform journalists. I'd love to see this stub idea extend to the Kindle being able to manage updates - it seems to be an exiting idea for readers and journalists alike and I'd willingly pay a subscription.

*fixed url typo

Also - these sites can send articles directly to my Kindle email, or I use the Readability plugin to right-click on any url and have the contents delivered on demand.

Re: This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories

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post #4

Since I became wedded to my Kindle for consuming journalism thanks to the superb sites such as http://longreads.org and http://longform.org * my reading time has exploded, plus I pay for services where possible as I am in need of their curation. Since using these sites I feel better informed about the world and I have a deep, deep respect for longform journalists. I'd love to see this stub idea extend to the Kindle b…

You made a typo for longform's URL

    s/longform.com/longform.org/

Re: This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories

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How exactly do they track if people actually read the entire article? Merely based on time?

You just made me realise why Google Glasses et al are such potential money makers.

Because unknown parties will see whatever you see?
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