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Hmm. I've mixed feelings about this. It's similar in some ways to the effect of mp3 track sales on albums. I also got irritated finding short stories cluttering up my browsing in Fictionwise. It helps if you want to try out a new writer, but free samples already exist for this. Taken to its extreme, authors may find that they sell just their highest rated stories rather than the whole collection.
However, Amazon have proved themselves pretty adept at getting the browsing experience right, and at driving sales of similar products, so perhaps the overall effect will be to bring more readers in. Which can only be a Good Thing.
Graham
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