Thread: E-books are more than a publishing platform—they’re a *whole new literary Form
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Old 12-05-2011, 10:16 AM   #1
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E-books are more than a publishing platform—they’re a *whole new literary Form
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In a year when Amazon sold more e-books than dead trees and publishers poured precious funds into actual tech ventures, a few hazy harbingers of the Future of Publishing began coming into focus. One is an emerging format that this year encompassed works by Jon Krakauer, Walter Mosley, Tyler Cowen, Amy Tan, and more than one vampire romance writer: the short book.
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More evidence that ebooks are revolutionizing the book industry - the long form journalistic article is migrating out out of its previous home in the magazine and into short ebooks like the Kindle Single and iBooks Quick Reads. In addition, on the fiction side, the novella is coming back on that format as well. I think that's great. Their are plenty of stories that can best be told in 100 pages, not 300.
I kinda hope that the ACE Double of two short novels for the price of one will come back , too. I used to enjoy those.
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