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New on Amazon: Short Stories For 49 Cents





This is a promising business like iTune.

From Wall Street Journal:

Amazon.com Inc. has a novel plan to sell literature that is shorter than novels.

The Internet retailer has begun selling short stories from popular authors, in digital form, that will be available exclusively on its Web site. Each story costs 49 cents.

Amazon's new program is another step in its fledgling digital-content strategy, based on the premise that original material can bring new customers to the company's site. Though not the first experiment with short-form writing on the Web, few companies with such broad influence in book retailing have become short-form publishers.

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Steve Kessel, Amazon's vice president of digital media, said short-form literature appeals to many readers but can't be efficiently distributed in paper form. "The economics didn't make sense," he said.

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