Would You Pay $0.49 for a Short Story?
Amazon is selling individual short stories.
There's a lot of interesting things going on with the way people get stories. I thought about podcasting several years ago, but people didn't seem too keen on the idea ( Read more... )
There's a lot of interesting things going on with the way people get stories. I thought about podcasting several years ago, but people didn't seem too keen on the idea ( Read more... )
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It doesn't bother me that a ton of people are rushing in.
Most of those people don't have what it takes to make it. I think it's cool that there are other ways for people to make it, now.
For those who have what it takes, there are more options.
Initially, people said things like bloggers turned writers was a fluke. But people made their own opportunities.
A lot of things are flukes, but I think the opportunities to be taken seriously are still going to be there, even in a sea of fanfic and other floods...
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Granted, there are drawbacks to it, but it's another step at least.
Your idea of something like an e-book Netflix would be cool. $5-$10 a month, and you have a queue, and then some instant read things.
I love books. I like that you buy a book and own it.
At the same time, with a leap to electronic, I don't mind kind of renting something in ways...as long as it's much cheaper.
Obviously, with print you don't deal with format changes and other things. A book from the 1800s is still gonna be able to be read in another 250 years if it's cared for.
In 250 years, the Kindle format will have probably long be forgotten...
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