Amazon has launched a new service called Amazon Shorts that allows you to download individual short stories for 49 cents apiece.  No longer do you have to buy anthologies to get to short stories, which can only be a good thing as far as I’m concerned.

I think this could actually revive the popularity of the short story and prompt many prominent authors to again write in this style.  Of course it could also prompt old English majors like myself to inflict our horrid prose on the masses.