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Online hope for short story sales

The perennial problem of persuading all those who wish to write short stories to buy enough of them to sustain a commercial market may be approaching a solution of sorts.

Penguin has launched nine titles in its Penguin Shorts initiative of short digital reads aimed at the online generation.

Priced at £1.99 the ebooks are available across all digital formats, said Penguin.

They range from a creepy short story to an essay on multiculturalism, accounts of battle at Alamein and Isandlwana, Christmas recipes and a novella by Anita Brookner.

Random House has already tested the waters with its Storycuts, a collection of some 200 digital short stories.

Pan Macmillan has joined in with a programme of digital Short Reads.

Penguin plans to publish two new Shorts a month.

Success, or no, depends on sufficient readers paying for reading material amid a welter of free online content available elsewhere.

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