Traditional print publishing has always left a big gap, writes Byliner's John Tayman in the winter Nieman Reports issue: "A story that needed 10,000, 20,000 or even 30,000 words to be properly told inevitably fell into publishing's dead zone. This represented the vast wasteland of impossible-to-place stories that were longer than magazine space permitted and shorter than a book was thought to be." Tayman describes Byliner's effort to find markets for those stories.
