Amazon Shorts
Sounds like pants some powerful women would wear, perhaps, but is a fascinating relatively new feature from Amazon.com (seems to have appeared in the last month or so). Buy works of, say, a couple or few dozen pages, pay 49 cents, and get the right to read them forever, even print them out from your “digital Locker in PDF, HTML, and text e-mail formats.”
Let’s call it the iTunes model brought to books. Wonder when we’ll see books sold a chapter or section at a time. Serialization for the modern era.