Digital fiction gets new genre

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 18, 2009 -- A new fiction genre entered the ebook world this week, the Granny Tale. Offered by Darling Newspaper Press (www.booktaste.com), it is a calculated response to trade statistics.
These show, surprisingly that people aged 50 or more are the biggest users of electronic readers. Link this to an industry report that 57% of book buyers are women and you get the genre’s inspiration.

The publisher’s introductory granny tale is “The Widow’s Golden Weeds”. It joins popular short-story favourites such as Mystery and Romance, and the publisher’s other short-story genres. These are Women’s Interest, Historical, Humour, Inspirational and Memoir.
“Readers of digital fiction are leading a worldwide return to short-stories,” said publishing chief Charles Bryce. “It is simply because they prefer short reads onscreen to long ones. That’s why we offer so many short stories.
“All of them sell readily, in contrast to the slower sale of our digital novels” Mr Bryce added.

“Significantly, a serialised novel that can be downloaded in short takes, sells better than the full text of the same novel in a single download. This happens even when the accumulated cost of all the serial chapters exceeds that of the total one-piece novel. When people pay extra for a preference like this, you can be sure that’s what they want!”