{"id":21176,"date":"2016-02-22T20:10:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/So-on-the-one-hand-readership-of-SFfantasy-short-stories-through-the-traditional-magazines-seems-to-be-declining"},"modified":"2016-02-22T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:10:17","slug":"so-on-the-one-hand-readership-of-sffantasy-short-stories-through-the-traditional-magazines-seems-to-be-declining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/02\/22\/so-on-the-one-hand-readership-of-sffantasy-short-stories-through-the-traditional-magazines-seems-to-be-declining\/","title":{"rendered":"So, on the one hand, readership of SF\/fantasy short stories through the traditional magazines seems to be declining&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, on the one hand, readership of SF\/fantasy short stories through the traditional magazines seems to be declining year on year, in general.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, there are still plenty around. I counted more than 100 pro and semipro markets for SFF last time I checked.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the gripping hand (we are talking about SFF here), there&#8217;s a revival in people reading short fiction, snatching moments when they&#8217;re waiting in line or waiting to pick up the kids from school to read on their phone, tablet, or ereader. Amazon have a special section of their ebook store based on how long it will take you to read something.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe (I thought last night) we need an app that will connect SFF (and maybe other?) readers with stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sign up the magazines, which act as curators of content, and maybe some of the anthologies, too. Allow authors to put their own stories in directly, if they&#8217;ve previously sold the story to at least a semipro market and the rights have reverted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enable the users to choose what to read by magazine\/antho, or by author, or by editor, or by length, or by (user-generated) tag, or a combination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charge a small monthly subscription, and track which stories people read, and pay the source magazine\/anthology\/author proportionately (kind of the Kindle Unlimited model).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        So, on the one hand, readership of SF\/fantasy short stories through the traditional magazines seems to be declining&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-21176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}