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Accepted.

I was more meaning that I find it normal to have short stories as a collection of separate files rather than 'bundled'. At least when it comes to the digital counterpart. I don't think you can compare a digital publication format with how the printed version is usually published for the same reasons as are often raised when you see someone suggesting to have their eReader 'turn' pages as if it were a physical book. Mostly these requests get 'politely' answered with the argument that they should not expect a digital medium to behave like a paper one. Granted, here too there is the matter of personal preference but still, eBooks are then also not considered the same as a regular printed version.

So just because it is fairly customary for short stories to be bundled in an anthology when published out of the context they first appeared in in printed format, it seems to be just as customary for sites as FeedBooks, Project Gutenberg, Archive.org, etc to provide them as separately downloadable ebooks when dealing with the digital format. They do provide anthologies but then only when originally published as anthology, I've not known these sites to actively bundle short stories themselves. Most of these stories seem to be sourced from the weekly/monthly magazines where they originally appeared in, so perhaps that is why they probably get separated out into individual downloadable ebooks.