(2009-09-30) Daily Beast Quick Books

The Daily Beast is creating a BeastBooks Book Publishing company. At Beast Books, writers would be expected to spend one to three months writing a book, and the publisher would take another month to produce an EBook edition. (With Paper Back coming later. Only if EBook sales are good?)

Ms. Brown, a former editor of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and the ill-fated Talk magazine, said there was a gap between online writing and full-length books that was no longer being fully met by a dwindling market for magazines. She envisioned most of the Beast Books titles as being 40,000 words, or about 150 pages. (Thin Book)