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13484463 No.13484463 [Reply] [Original]

In the twitter age where people are busy and can't read beyond 400+ page novels or read at all, why isn't the short story more popular? It's the best of both worlds.

>> No.13484482

>>13484463
Publishing/distributing them is the biggest problem. Magazines have moved on from short fiction and the ones that continue are far too niche.

>> No.13484532

>>13484463
Short stories read on podcasts will be the closest thing to literature that will still exist 30 years from now.

>> No.13484535

>>13484532
Sad!

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Novellas are what's going up in popularity the most because ebook readers are less prone to choosing doorstoppers to read that people in bookstores would buy to get their moneys worth. As in they knew they could read it for a long time like over a vacation.

>>13484535
Reading was always for plebs