Something I just wrote about in tweets...

Read backwards as I just cut-and-pasted it.

In the current climate, it is still better to pursue major magazines first, but unless a semi-pro carries some cachet, it's better to DiY.
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The experience has changed my perspective on short fiction, in general, and I expect I will be doing more original short stories via eBook.
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The bits are always distributed, exactly where people can find them, and I just have to keep producing more data bits...
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Though I still think it is not fully "here" as a writing business. In two years? Three? Five? The accounting and distribution is too good.
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The other neat thing is patience: I'm not racing against the death spiral to move units of product. I've got no PR, no hurry, and just write
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And, that this amount is small is a temporary thing, I think, as more and more readers turn to eBooks on their various devices and many small amounts add up over time.
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It's simply breathtaking to open up a browser window, and know what I'm owed and exactly when it will arrive to the day. Even if it's small.
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My eBook experiments indicate to me that this will be the future of books, if only because of the way accounting and payments work. #ontime