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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I've long thought it would be neat if Amazon were to launch a line of monthly/quarterly digital pulp magazines for the Kindle. A couple of magazines in different genres (straight fiction, horror, sci-fi, romance, etc) with a mix of short stories by established big name authors and lesser known indies.
There's scads of Kindle short story collections available. But it would help to have the clout of Amazon to ensure some level of quality. And they have the pockets to license famous names like Astounding or Weird Tales if they thought it was worth it.
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That might be one way that magazines make a come back. It's kind of funny since I was a teenager right at the tail end of the magazine/short story run. For decades they were the primary revenue source for many authors. Authors would sell their novels to magazines to publish as serials. That's how I first read Roger Zelazny. I read Asimov's SF magazine for a number of years from when it started in the late 70's through the mid 80's.
I would tend to say that the rise of the mall bookstores increased the sales of books, which shifted authors focus from magazine sales to book sales.