Electric Literature

The NYT (28 October 2009) profiles this new literary magazine, which aims to leverage the augmentative possibilities of digital media. Electric Literature (EL) is available as a print-on-demand publication, and also on Kindle, etc., the iPhone, and as an audiobook. There are related YouTube posts and haiku-like Twitterings. Yet EL is running a 12,000-word story ("a bit long for a conventional literary magazine," says the author, Stephen O'Connor), so it's not all concision, despite the editor in chief's assertion that "everyone is reading short-form text." EL has 800 subscribers, which is pretty good for a mag with one issue.