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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I had a similar idea a while ago, but it would work better with writers within the same genre, not just a mishmash of whatever. It would also need to be free and available from every writer involved through the sort of places people go to buy ebooks. That way everyone would share each other's existing reader-base (if they have any).
You could also maybe club together and pay for a short story from someone who is already reasonably established in that genre that you could use to draw people in.
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This pretty much describes what genre magazines do, including paying bigger name authors for submissions. As a SF/F reader, I get some new author ideas from reading short stories they publish in, say, Asimov's or Fantasy and Science Fiction. Of course, those magazines have a formal submission process and editors, so I know I'm going to get a quality read, even if it's not quite my cup of tea. Speaking as a reader, I'd be leery of reading anything self-submitted by an author. Many authors already offer samplings of their work on their websites, though it would be convenient to have them gathered all in one place.
As a pay app, what guarantee do I have that it will be maintained? This isn't Angry Birds, where I'm buying an all-in game. This is something that needs to be updated continuously.