A discovery engine for narrative nonfiction: Byliner.com launches with high h... - 0 views
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Byliner.com, which launches today, wants to be the Pandora of narrative nonfiction. It offers users a recommendation service that suggests new authors they might like, as well as automatic Facebook updates whenever a favorite writer publishes a new story. It also offers writer profile pages that gather their long-form stories from across the web together with links to the Amazon pages of their published books.
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But the sheer scale of Byliner.com — a rigorously curated 29,760 feature articles, as of yesterday, and growing — seems out of proportion to this simple goal. Tayman is a long-form true believer. Like other journalists in the industry, he’s seen the evidence that there is a strong web readership for new long-form stories
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"It's a nonfiction nerd's fantasy: a database of nearly 30,000 feature stories, meticulously organized, sleekly presented, and fully searchable - by author, by publication, by topic."