Do you feel like the market for short fiction's changed in any significant ways over the past couple of years?

Neil Clarke The last couple of years have been a natural progression from the prior five. Digital publishing continues to change the landscape, more people are reading in that medium, and crowdfunding continues to help generate a wide variety of interesting projects. For short fiction, this is probably the best things have been in the last twenty (or more) years. Despite that, I'd have to say that the last two years haven't introduced significant change.

There's still a lot of room for improvement. A big problem for magazines is digital subscription management and distribution. I'm also worried about Kickstarter fatigue for magazines and anthologists that regularly return to the well. One of the services showing a lot of promise is Patreon, which blends the best of Kickstarter and subscriptions. I've been using it for Clarkesworld (http://patreon.com/clarkesworld) and have been very happy with them.

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