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Old 12-05-2009, 10:34 AM   #1
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Amazon moves to corner the short story market: authors say 'yes please'

Another reason why Amazon not supporting epud is no big deal. When publishers want to reach the core group of people with e-book readers, they go with the Kindle. I suspect it will be very hard to ever change this.

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Let the iTunes-ization of short fiction begin.

Starting on Monday, Amazon will sell two stories, one by Christopher Buckley and the other by Edna O’Brien, through its Kindle store.
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Priced at $3.99 each, the stories, which will bear the Atlantic logo, are exclusively available on the Kindle, Amazon’s electronic reader, and will not appear in the print version of the magazine. The Atlantic’s editors plan to offer about two Kindle stories every month.
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Although the authors may at some point obtain the rights to republish the stories as part of a collection or in another magazine, the stories cannot appear in any other e-reader format.

On amazon.com, readers who search for the authors’ books will also be shown links to the Atlantic-branded short stories.

Mr. Grandinetti said Amazon was keen to do other similar deals, either with magazines, publishers or authors directly.
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For authors who sign with The Atlantic for the Kindle deal, their contracted work is limited to that one format, since those who don’t own a Kindle won’t be able to read it. But Curtis Sittenfeld, the author of the novels “Prep” and “American Wife,” who sold a short story to The Atlantic that will be offered for the Kindle in January, said that had she sold it to a small academic journal, it would have had “limited distribution anyway.”
I'd note that anyone with a PC would have access to these stories as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/bo...nt&tntemail1=y
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