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This should give quite a shot of adrenaline to the short story market. Especially for someone like me who never reads magazines. I wonder if they'll move away

• Jun8 16y ago
  Excellent idea! Read the introductions of any of the past 20 years Best American Short Stories books and they always ask the question "Is the short story dead" and lament the decrease in the number of magazines that exclusively publish short fiction. I think there was an experiment in the UK where people could buy single stories printed in map-like format at tube stations. Editors don't like short stories because you have to have a lot, e.g. at least 5-6, to publish as a decent book, and coming up with that many good short stories is not within everybody's capability (same thing with having to have ~10 songs for a CD). This new medium may just be the thing to spur story writers.
• jonhendry 16y ago
  "I wonder if they'll move away from such a heavily curated model at some point." There's a place for heavy curation... what's needed is more curators who are trusted. That ought to be possible once 'curation' is separated from the overhead and complexity of traditional publishing, which tends to concentrate influence in the hands of relatively few editor/curators. Take out the hassle and overhead of publishing, and the curation becomes as light and simple as recording lists of stories people liked, and then subscribing to the lists of people whose opinions you trust.