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I think you're missing the point. These are more than short stories: 1. They fall somewhere between a blog post and book. If you have 50 - 100 pages to write
by noahc 16y ago
I think you're missing the point. These are more than short stories:
1. They fall somewhere between a blog post and book. If you have 50 - 100 pages to write on something you either have to turn it into 50 blog posts or 300 page book. The focus here is on length appropriate works.
3. These are non-fiction (at least most of them) works that tend to be by amateur experts. What that means is that they are amateur writers writing on topics they are experts in. This allows my dad to write an Amazon Kindle Single on Vietnam or Economic Development and publish it. This is a huge win for amateur experts!
3. This is just the start, and I expect we'll see a lot of people moving in this direction, particularly people with huge followings. Imagine if someone with 100,000+ reach can sell 5,000 of these every 2 or 3 months.
- jseliger 16y ago3. These are non-fiction (at least most of them) works that tend to be by amateur experts. What that means is that they are amateur writers writing on topics they are experts in. This allows my dad to write an Amazon Kindle Single on Vietnam or Economic Development and publish it. This is a huge win for amateur experts! Sometimes they're also for non-amateur experts publishing something that doesn't slot easily into the classic article / book item. I'm thinking here of Tyler Cowen's _The Great Stagnation_, which I just wrote about: http://jseliger.com/2011/01/26/the-great-stagnation-how-america-ate-all-the-low-hanging-fruit-of-modern-historygot-sick-and-will-eventually-feel-better-tyler-cowen/ http://jseliger.com/2011/01/26/the-great-stagnation-how-amer... primarily because the material is interesting and useful and partially because it's useful.