Search for that term and found, sure enough, a couple of blue stories mixed in with the search results (notably Playing Hard: A Complete Collection of Hot Erotic Short Stories).īut the rest of the page was more convincingly curated/tailored, with more premium-looking collections of short stories appearing nearer the top and, crucially, a curated widget showing ‘Contemporary short story collections to devour’ sourced from Goodreads. I did wonder if this was a fair comparison since the Kindle store doesn’t actually have a short-story page accessible from the main menu. I then checked for a few older offerings: both had multiple affordable e-copies of Bob Southey’s Life of Nelson, and of Fielding’s Joseph Andrews classics are a goldmine for eBook readers because they are usually out of copyright.Īs if to prove this point, neither store had a digital version of John Dickson Carr’s Burning Court from 1937, probably because it sits in that awkward zone of being very old but not quite old enough to automatically fall into the public domain.Īll mild stuff, and far be it from me to deny readers the opportunity to “cozy up and be ready for some sexy fun”, but it all adds to the sense that these are just the most recent or the most SEO-optimised offerings available, rather than the ones a human being or an effective algorithm has decided are appealing choices for a short-story aficionado. In other words, both stores get new books at pretty much the same time.
Kindle, although Kobo was 85p more at time of writing) Michael Spicer’s Secret Political Adviser (on.Sir David Attenborough’s A Life On Our Planet (available on.Looking on the UK stores for books published in the week I wrote this article, I checked for the following titles:
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