Electronic books revitalize journalism

The "newspaper crisis" has led journalists and writers to put enormous amounts of journalistic material in electronic formats.The great journalistic stories (reports and chronicles) about important events that change the lives of people no longer fit in newspapers.

During the Ebooks para el periodismo que no cabe en los periódicos (E-books for journalism with no place in newspapers) conference, Fernando García Mongay, Spanish journalist and Creator and Editor of the eCícero.es editorial said that, "electronic books allow journalists to publish current events in shorter formats than books, but longer than those read in newspapers".

"Many journalists have decided to edit their writings in electronic books with material that was not used in their area." The expert considers that the best journalism is in electronic books.

The process of editing and publishing texts in formats such as e-books is relatively easy using free tools available on the Internet, such as:

• Sigil, a free Google tool to create and edit electronic books.
• Calibre, one of the most widely used programs to read e-books, exchange formats, and edit own texts to publish.
• Editorial software or programs with journalistic approaches such as atavist, readmatter and eCicero.

According to Garcia Mongay, e-books may help journalists control and make their own work more profitable, as they can sell it  on Amazon, iTunes (Apple), Google Play, in other platforms; or because it helps them enrich their trajectory as there are editorials that are well-known for their interest in the publication of electronic books and journalistic material.