Just in time for this month’s blog carnival, Steampulp has released the world’s first electronic pulp fiction magazine.
Here’s a blurb from their press release:
Steampulp Publishing LLC has released the world’s first electronic pulp fiction magazine created exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Emulating the style of the pulp adventure magazines of the 1920s and ’30s, Steampunk Tales #1 contains first-run and original fiction written by an A+ list of award-winning authors. Issue #1 contains 10 short stories (between 4,300 and 11,000 words) for the unbelievably low price of $1.99. Authors contributing to Issue #1 include Jay Lake, Catherynne M. Valente, SatyrPhil Brucato and G.D. Falksen. The cover art was painted by popular artist Melita “Missmonster” Curphy. Steampunk Tales is distributed exclusively via the iPhone App Store and features the unique Steampunk Tales Reader, which renders the stories with a retro-futuristic Victorian flair never before seen in any eBook reader application.
The e-zine sounds pretty cool although it’s too bad it’s available only for the iPhone and iPod Touch so I won’t be reading it anytime soon.
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Thanks for posting this. My wife recently bought the newest iPhone and I got her iPod Touch as a hand-me-down. It’s mostly serving as an ebook reader, so this is right up my alley.
A part of me is annoyed by a format-locked publication, while another is interested in a business model that can survive on $2 a copy. I also know of one of the authors as a friend of a friend on LiveJournal, so on balance I went ahead and bought a copy. There should be a review (eventually…) at the Seven-Sided Die.
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