This startup is already a publisher of high quality, long-form journalism, and Tuesday, it is launching its community-focused website to find readers something good to peruse.
Byliner.com, now in public beta, is a digital magazine rack of new and classic nonfiction magazine stories curated by the site's editors. It features more than 30,000 articles sorted in a variety of ways and personalized for each reader.
Readers can turn to Byliner.com to find, discuss and share feature articles by their favorite authors and to view articles by subject matter, popularity or recency.
Users can also search for writers and articles, submit links for consideration, follow their favorite writers, share stories and discover writers similar to the ones they already enjoy.
Byliner.com is the second edition in Byliner's ongoing narrative. The startup, launched just months ago, doubles as a digital publishing house that assigns, edits and produces nonfiction stories for sale as Amazon Singles.
The stories, Byliner Originals as they're called, are meant to be read in a single sitting and have so far proven quite popular with readers. In the past few weeks alone, 200,000 readers have downloaded a Byliner Original, says CEO and founder John Tayman.
Byliner.com will aslo serve as an important distribution channel for Byliner Originals.
On June 22, Byliner will release its fifth original publication I Hope Like Heck: The Selected Poems of Sarah Palin. The title was compiled and edited by Michael Solomon and is meant to be a tongue-in-cheek reinterpretation of the recently released Palin emails.