Newsweek Repackaging Candidate Coverage for Kindle Bios

Mac Slocum
October 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2) | Listen

Newsweek will aggregate its coverage of John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden into four Kindle-only biographies. From Amazon's Kindle Blog:

The book-length biographies contain archived reporting and commentary from Newsweek's coverage of the candidates from the magazine's award-winning political correspondents. Each biography takes readers through the lives of the candidates, from their personal beginnings to their political breakthroughs.

The $9.99 books will be available for download tomorrow. Amazon previously released Kindle biographies of both prospective first ladies.

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Stephen Windwalker said:
October 14, 2008 1:05 PM

We don't have Newsweek's muscle, but our little independent publishing company (known for our bestselling book about the Kindle) has had an interesting experience with a quick-to-market book about Palin.

Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter's Guide to Sarah Palin is an intellectually honest but critical assessment and is now the #1 political campaign book in the Kindle store (http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/157481011) and the newly minted paperback is selling briskly and has been picked up by Baker & Taylor and may be picked up this week by Barnes & Noble. We think that it will have a longer shelf life than many election books, because we expect Palin to be a key player with the Republican base for 2012.

Mac Slocum said:
October 14, 2008 1:08 PM

@Stephen: If you don't mind sharing, I'd love to know how long it took you to produce the Palin book (writing through stocking).

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