In a piece for Harvard’s Nieman Lab, I explain the second attempt by Foreign Policy magazine to repackage and monetize its reporting — this time, on the Egyptian revolution — as an e-book. The book was published just 10 days after Hosni Mubarak’s fall from power.

The medium form — or midform journalism — is an attempt to give readers deep context for breaking news and world crises. And the convenience of a single download may be worth one, two, or five dollars.