I hate buying individual short stories. The length of time selecting/buying/downloading the story is disproportional to the time take to read it.
I do like anthologies of short stories, and magazines of short stories. I have subscriptions to Analog, Asimov's, F&SF, JBU* and the Grantville Gazette. I've also bought several anthologies.
But individual short stories? Not for me.
*JBU - Jim Baen's Universe. A relatively new on-line SF magazine
http://www.baens-universe.com/
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Originally Posted by stoogeswoman
If eBook readers really become a staple, maybe that would revive the market for short stories, which hasn't really been "hot" for a long time (except maybe in s/f).
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