Amazon has ended its periodicals program, and independent publishers are panicking

Kindle on bookshelf with hardcovers. Books, yes. Magazines — maybe. | Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge

I like short stories. I read them, and I write them. I grew up subscribing to and reading The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog, and a bunch of others, some genre, some not. And as I got older, I began to understand the financial tightrope that many of these independent periodicals walk — a tightrope funded by contributions, subscriptions, the occasional ad, and perhaps a second mortgage.

I also understood that any resource that makes it a bit easier for these pubs to find and keep readers — like the ability to gather subscribers through ...

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