The Shorts List: Amazon’s selling stories and essays for 49 cents. Is anybody buying?

There is an article at Slate called “The Shorts List: Amazon’s selling stories and essays for 49 cents. Is anybody buying?” The entire article is interesting but I found this line to be poignant “So, why is the bookseller even bothering? Because it has read the tea leaves on the future of media distribution, and it suspects the micropayment model is coming to the book business.”