A Blogpost On Online Fiction
Via The Bibliophile Stalker: here's a post, Ostriches Sure Like To Shove Their Heads In The Sand, with some crunched numbers of online stories, from oldcharliebrown's journal.
So, in your opinion, is the trend for short-fiction (all kinds, and not just genre) going online? What's your projection on the future of print for short-fiction (short stories, flash fiction, novellas)?
So, in your opinion, is the trend for short-fiction (all kinds, and not just genre) going online? What's your projection on the future of print for short-fiction (short stories, flash fiction, novellas)?
posted by pgenrestories at 2:17 AM
3 Comments:
FYI, that Sean Wallace's LJ, the co-editor of Prime books and Weird Tales so he really knows what he's talking about.
As for the future, only if everyone is really going online.
;-)
Online will get stronger, but print won't go away. As I've said before, there's something to being printed on paper.
But it's the online route that will get people like us from the little country of the Philippines, noticed. I know I got international readership on fanfiction.net, for what it's worth. ^^
@banzai cat and ek: Hi guys. I guess that's why I'm hesitant to stop the actual print run. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but there's something about text printed on paper... Not that I can't read a tale online; I can, easily. I suppose both have their pros and cons. Having actual printed text on paper limits the distribution. Go online, and the whole world can read, but you lose that physical sense of carrying the text with you, be it in magazine or book form.
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