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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Many of the digital first publishers out there sell tons of books in the shorter categories. If anything I've encountered more, not less.
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I think the move to ebooks has reinvigorated the short form.
I think its great for writers are good at both forms. Steven King, for example , is IMO even better at shorter lengths.
I can also see it better for beginning writers. In the olden days, you would master the shorter forms , selling to the magazines, THEN move on to the novel.
Now beginning authors want to try the novel in one big jump. Unsurprisingly, they generally fail.
Now the old way is economically possible again.