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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello, Do you think e-books are more popular for short stories and novellas than printed books?
Lois McMaster Bujold
It's hard for very short works to be profitably marketed on paper. People expect a certain heft for the price they must pay. Short story collections and anthologies, which are the only way to make up market weight, are notoriously poor sellers in paper compared to novels. (Novella collections aren't much better.) So yeah, I don't know about popular, but ala carte short stories are much more possible to sell electronically than on paper.
(A collection, in this context, is a book of stories by one writer; an anthology is a book of stories by many writers.)
Ta, L.
(A collection, in this context, is a book of stories by one writer; an anthology is a book of stories by many writers.)
Ta, L.
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