Media News - Monday, January 30, 2012

For ProPublica, more e-books

ProPublica, the nonprofit news organization known for its investigative journalism, is about to expand its e-book efforts. Following in the digital footsteps of The New Yorker, The New York Times, Politico, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan, ProPublica will release its work in e-book form, this time through Open Road Integrated Media, the two companies are expected to announce on Monday. Beginning in February, Open Road, will release several e-books containing content ProPublica has already published. One of the e-books, titled “Presidential Pardons,” is a series that was originally published in The Washington Post. Another e-book, “Post Mortem,” is based on ProPublica’s investigation of coroner and medical examiner offices, work that was done in collaboration with NPR and Frontline. The arrangement is similar to a venture announced last year between Random House and Politico, in which Random House would publish four e-books from Politico’s reporting on the 2012 presidential campaign. ProPublica has previously published five e-books available on Amazon.com and bn.com. ProPublica’s reporters produce articles published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR and dozens of other organizations. Open Road and ProPublica have to address the tricky problem of trying to sell content that already appears free online, so the e-books will go beyond the original work to include videos, maps, documents, photographs and interviews with journalists. (New York Times)

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