• Folio, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:15 AM

Newsweek will release a collection of its election coverage as an e-book series for Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader. It is the first magazine to publish collected coverage on Kindle.

The e-books, packaged as biographies of the presidential and vice presidential candidates, includes archived reporting and commentary from Newsweek's pages. Titled "Mr. Cool," "Mr. Hot," "The Insider" and "The Outsider" for Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, respectively. The books will be released Oct. 15 at $9.99 a piece.

The magazine-Kindle project "gives readers something with the breadth of a political biography, but with digital immediacy," says Amazon.

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