SZ Langstrecke

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For three years, Dirk von Gehlen has been working on a new way to package the long reads from Süddeutsche Zeitung. The idea is similar to what some people do with Instapaper: timeless long-form pieces you can read at your own pace. The editorial team selects the stories and gives them a beautiful new layout, on paper or as an ebook. I think the magazine would look at home on a newsstand and fit the “SZ” brand better than a collection of dusty movies on DVD.

On Startnext, you can now get four issues for €15 as an ebook, or for €25 or €35 on paper, and help make the magazine/book happen. Dirk showed a few colleagues and me an early version of the campaign and video at the end of last year. As always, the process and iterations that lead to the final version are often fascinating. Maybe that will be true of the magazine itself too.

I bought the ebook, because the last thing I need is more paper. Other readers may feel differently; the crowdfunding campaign is also a way to test that, without a hard funding target. Good luck!