Earlier this month we talked about Travelfish, a company specializing in producing low-cost guidebooks to Southeast Asia that can be downloaded as PDFs for just a few dollars.

The PamphletGuys are a couple of people from the publishing industry (Adam Bellow and David S. Bernstein) who also are bringing out a series of low-cost books, pamphlets, that are sold over the net. You’ll get sent a printed pamphlet but, as soon as you buy, you’ll also receive a link to download an electronic version of the pamphlet.

I think that it’s a really interesting concept. Most of the pamphlets are short in length, 50 – 60 pages, but that’s a good amount of reading for just 4 dollars.

The pamphlets are based on material from blogs. The Columbia Journalism Review has a very good interview with Pamphlet Guy Adam Bellow:

… my audience is really twofold. First there is the universe of blogs itself, which is a narrow market but a global one. But beyond that I find that there are many, many people who have become aware that the blogosphere exists and that it is powerful and influential but being busy people with a lot of demands on their time, they haven’t got the faintest idea of how to get acquainted with it and find the stuff that would interest them.