SF Signal: MIND MELD: Is The Short Fiction Market in Trouble?

[ellen_datlow]

"One of the many perennial arguments in the science fiction blogosphere centers on the health of the short fiction market, so we turned the Mind Meld microphone to people in the field and asked them:

Q: Nobody questions the relevance of genre short fiction, but there is some debate about the health of the market itself. From your perspective, is the short fiction market in trouble? If not, why the debate? If so, what is the cause?"

David Moles, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Reed, Mary Robinette Kowal, Sarah Langan, Neal Asher, Jeffrey Ford, Paolo Bacigalupi, A.M. Dellamonica, Rudy Rucker, Abigail Nussbaum, Jason Sizemore, Charles Coleman Finlay take on the question:
Mind Meld

Comments

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I certainly got into editing as a professional expecting to get paid for my work!

[unrealfred.livejournal.com]

Oh no, absolutely. It wasn't my intention to suggest otherwise, or that a professional shouldn't expect to be treated with common professional courtesy. I just think it's a little premature to ring the death knell for the short fiction market because it maybe isn't hugely profitable.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I agree. The death knell has been ringing since I got into the field in the early 80s.

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

A youtube remix of that could be quite informative. :)