Amazon Sells Shorts

[coalescent]

I wonder if this will work?

Looking for Something New to Read?

Amazon Shorts are brand-new short-form literature from top authors, available only on Amazon.com. Try a new genre or a new author -- there's something for everyone. It's all digital and only 49 cents. Amazon Shorts are:

The sf titles look interesting, and appear to be a mix of fiction and nonfiction. 'The 'Velt' by Lucius Shepard is the one that grabs my eye first (although this thread makes me wonder if it's strictly a short story at all), but there's stuff by Mary Rosenblum, Michael Swanwick and others as well. The largest problem I can see is that they only seem to be offering the stories as HTML, which is frankly bizarre.

And tangentially, going back to the short fiction thread from a few days ago, does anyone want to own up to being anonymous?

EDIT: Anonymous strikes again! Is my journal being invaded by the dark cabal?

via John Klima

Comments

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

It is selfishly a good thing they don't offer PDF versions (so I could print the thing out and read at my leisure away from the computer) or I would be very twitchy with the desire to spend money right now. :-)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you can't right now because despite saying '21 June' everywhere, if you go to the individual stories they don't seem to actually be available yet.

I can always copy and paste the text into a text file, I guess.

[immortalradical.livejournal.com]

the dark cabal

You mean Them?

[snowking.livejournal.com]

How easily he forgets what a proper cabal looks like.

Anonymous =

[applez.livejournal.com]

Someon you know, probably, LJ has been doing a bizarre 'anon' pre-set for a while, but I think they recently fixed that...

I'd have said Tom, but Tom is good about announcing himself.

Re: Anonymous =

[(Anonymous)]

Also, using proper emphasis tags rather than *astericism*.

No, that anonymous is not me. Fool hella better stop off my turf!!!

-- tom

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

totally your punishment for stealing my topic. And voodooing me. Also for stealing my lame dark cabal joke. Well that's its own punishment :P

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Basically everything worthwhile on my journal I steal from you, then?

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

this is a question?

the music you pimp and I quite like has nothing to do with me. the other bits are totally factual. you are jealous because I am non-euclidian. (And how did that ever come up twice in two days with two unrelated folk?

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

That's interesting given the whole "short story is dead!!!1111" conv (which was actually v interesting, I shouldn't mock).

If it's not sold in PDF I won't read it, cause I dislike reading long sections of prose on a lit screen, HTML does funny things when you print it out and I really really will organize my downloaded files better one of these days so I can find stuff in it without having to endure a thirty-min "Find" search. I've heard the new Mac OS X has some "searchlight" function that can Find Stuff Instantly, and there's Google for the desktop (the spousal overunit doesn't want it on his puter). But the truth is unless I specially mark a downloaded file the instant I download it, it generally gets lost in all the clutter.

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

spotlight is awesome. it really is.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

LJ has spent the last few days logging me out without asking permission first.

Which may not be anonymous's problem, but I thought I'd say.

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

killer= anonymous

i see how it is.

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

you owe me 6 story crits as punishment.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Ah! Me too. I thought I was just being dumb and clicking the wrong things on my new machine.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Sorry, yes, I guess I wasn't clear--that was actually my first guess as to what was going on. I've seen it happen to everyone except me, pretty much.

Not that anyone's owned up yet ...

[(Anonymous)]

The largest problem I can see is that they only seem to be offering the stories as HTML, which is frankly bizarre.

'Print to PDF'?

I mock your inability to print documents other than those which are spoon-fed to you in graphical form.

-- tom