Amazon’s Kindle Team says, “We don’t believe that all of the major publishers will take the same route as Macmillan. And we know for sure that many independent presses and self-published authors will see this as an opportunity to provide attractively priced e-books as an alternative.”

That is exactly what I’ve been thinking.  Let the major publishers raise e-book prices. It’s already established that lower priced e-books sell far, far better, and there’s more to be made from the volume sales.  Big publishing’s big prices will drive price-conscious e-book readers to try reading lesser known small press titles.

Being that I’m starting to venture myself into small press e-book publishing, this is all good news to me.

This was a quote from this morning’s SiliconValley.com‘s First Edition.

Indicators for over the last year have pointed to mobile web devices surging to become, if not the most used Internet viewing device, then at least a major rival to traditional laptops and desktop computers.  This is why about 6 months ago, convinced that if anyone is going to read short fiction, they’re going to do it online — and on a mobile device — I set up FoneFic.com.

It hasn’t taken off.  And people I quiz about it (not writers, but normal everyday people who read books) their eyes kind of glaze over, and I get the impression that they’re not really interested.  My idea for the mobile fiction site is somewhat interesting, but not the short fiction itself.  And not specifically the short fiction I have featured, but the idea of short stories in general.

So I have to ask myself … am I just ahead of the curve?  Or is short fiction actually dead?