The New Yorker issued this press release:

The New Yorker to Launch “At the Ballpark” New Yorker Reader

New York, July 11, 2011—“At the Ballpark,” a baseball-themed collection, is launching today. It is part of The New Yorker Reader, a series of anthologies of content culled from the magazine’s rich archive in an easy-to-read format for the iPad. The New Yorker Reader collections will be available to all digital subscribers on the iPad as part of their subscription and to non-subscribers for $2.99 each in the iTunes store. “At the Ballpark” features an introduction by the New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik, and there are eight features: Niven Busch Lou Gehrig, John Updike on Ted Williams, Roger Angell on Bob Gibson and on the 2009 Yankees, Susan Orlean on Cuban baseball, David Grann on Ricky Henderson, Ben McGrath on Manny Ramirez, and Jeffrey Toobin on Fred Wilpon; four Talk of the Town stories—Rex Lardner on baseball school, Adam Platt on Hideki Irabu’s translator, Nick Paumgarten on Yankee Stadium’s post-9/11 bag check, and Ben McGrath on the beanball king; and one poem, “Baseball and Writing,” by Marianne Moore. “At the Ballpark” is supported by United Airlines; United will also be supporting the next three upcoming New Yorker Reader collections, which will focus on golf, travel, and food.

Some of us are Android users, and it would be nice to release these collections for those devices as well.

Even if you don’t subscribe to the New Yorker, $2.99 seems like a bargain for these fine essays.