If anthologies don't sell, why did you buy one?

[deborahjross]

Despite the cry of "Anthologies Don't Sell," readers are still buying them and writers want to submit stories to them. Maybe "Why don't anthologies sell?" is the wrong question and we should be asking, "Who do anthologies sell. Feel free to leave comments, as well.

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[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

This is so interesting, the question of whether tie-in and outtake stories are satisfying in the way the original (longer) works are. Sometimes, they're like fanfic written by the author her/himself.

I think there's a pressure to put those out, whether they have good "storyness" in themselves. That is, whether they would work as stand-alones to a reader who didn't know the book/series.