Digital short stories
November 7th, 2010 | 
Author: *Stephen King Made $80,000 From Digital Short Story
Stephen King Ur*Steven King’s “Ur
”
novella was written exclusively for the Kindle. The bestselling author
told the /Wall Street Journal/ in an interview
that the 2009 experiment has made him around $80,000 so far.
/I didn’t do “Ur” for money. I did it because it was interesting.
I’m fairly prolific. It took three days, and I’ve made about
$80,000. You can’t get that for short fiction from Playboy or
anybody else. It’s ridiculous./
This does prove there is a market for short stories sold through
ebookstores like Amazon.com’s Kindle store. Unfortunately, not every
author has the brand recognition Stephen King has. Amazon.com recently
announced Kindle Singles, an
attempt to try and create a market for shorter works (from less than
10,000 words to over 50,000) sold for the Kindle.
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“Didn’t do it for the money.” Yuh hunh. Isn’t this the guy that canceled his online novel because people weren’t paying enough?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/35723/stephen_king_halts_his_online_novel.html
So he makes a cool half-million then leaves his buyers hanging. Class act.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,100057,00.html
I’d believe a forty-dollar streetwalker saying she doesn’t do it for the money before I’d believe King.