Literary magazines are dusting themselves off, extinguishing their clove cigarettes, and migrating  from the shelves of boutique bookstores — alongside a lemming queue of other dying publications — to the promised land of the internet. And it’s pretty freaking exciting.

Electric Literature has a new concept: only publish on Kindle, iPhone, eBook, or print-on-demand; pay $1,000/story to attract great writers; and pair each short story with an animator to make a trailer for it. Their Brooklyn-based staff of two wants to see short stories returned to the hearts and minds of the mainstream — to a time where authors had cachet, people were reading Raymond Carver in everyday places like Harper’s Bazaar and Esquire, and well, there was a market for short fiction

Triple Canopy is an online magazine that seeks content designed specifically for the internet rather than stories that could work just as well in print. Their themes are high concept, and in my opinion, a bit esoteric. It’ s exciting that they are about to release their seventh issue, but I hope they’ll lay off the  academic and start getting a little more fun. I love the web design: