Comments on: Stories A La Carte? http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/09/03/stories-a-la-carte/ Fri, 18 May 2012 06:39:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Wayne C. Long http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/09/03/stories-a-la-carte/#comment-2082 Wayne C. Long Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:04:06 +0000 http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/09/03/stories-a-la-carte/#comment-2082 For a little over a year now, at my professional short story Web site www.LongShortStories.com, I have been offering my short stories to eager Internet readers via pdf e-mail attachment. Readers may: Subscribe for one year (30 stories total, one sent automatically every 12 days) for $12. Subscribe for two years (60 stories total, one sent automatically every 12 days) for $20. Enjoy sampling any or all of the first 25 of them via my Pay-Per-View store at $0.99 each (with discounts for multiple purchases there). I invite all ardent short story readers to visit my LongShortStories Web site, read my Free Samples, and to become subscribers. In this unique way, I am meeting the varied needs of the global reading family. Wayne C. Long For a little over a year now, at my professional short story Web site www.LongShortStories.com, I have been offering my short stories to eager Internet readers via pdf e-mail attachment.

Readers may:
Subscribe for one year (30 stories total, one sent automatically every 12 days) for $12.
Subscribe for two years (60 stories total, one sent automatically every 12 days) for $20.
Enjoy sampling any or all of the first 25 of them via my Pay-Per-View store at $0.99 each (with discounts for multiple purchases there).

I invite all ardent short story readers to visit my LongShortStories Web site, read my Free Samples, and to become subscribers.

In this unique way, I am meeting the varied needs of the global reading family.

Wayne C. Long

]]> By: Tania Hershman http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/09/03/stories-a-la-carte/#comment-2058 Tania Hershman Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:01:00 +0000 http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/09/03/stories-a-la-carte/#comment-2058 As a short story writer who has just published a <a href="http://www.thewhiteroadandotherstories.com" rel="nofollow">collection</a> (quick promotional plug!) I find this very sad. This is pandering to a culture that only wants to see what it already knows it wants, packaged the way it wants it, with no room for novelty, innovation. A collection is worth buying to discover the gems you didn't know you wanted to read....Like buying an album instead of just the single. The parallels couldn't be clearer. And, as someone very wise said on an article I wrote yesterday for Vulpes Libris, reading short stories actually requires more attention than reading a novel, because ideally the short story contains no padding, nothing extraneous, nothing you can skip. So this oft-repeated myth about short stories being good for those with short attention spans, used to blogging and texting, doesn't fly! As a short story writer who has just published a collection (quick promotional plug!) I find this very sad. This is pandering to a culture that only wants to see what it already knows it wants, packaged the way it wants it, with no room for novelty, innovation. A collection is worth buying to discover the gems you didn’t know you wanted to read….Like buying an album instead of just the single. The parallels couldn’t be clearer. And, as someone very wise said on an article I wrote yesterday for Vulpes Libris, reading short stories actually requires more attention than reading a novel, because ideally the short story contains no padding, nothing extraneous, nothing you can skip. So this oft-repeated myth about short stories being good for those with short attention spans, used to blogging and texting, doesn’t fly!

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