It's really a shame that there weren't some existing media in which short stories were popular --- they could have been made available on the Kindle in some periodic fashion, grouped by topic/subject, and to which folks could have subscribed....
Folks have been trying to bring this to the table since computers were first rolled out.
The problem is, any sort of taxes/fees will impact corporate profits (or be inflationary) so are pretty much a non-starter in the current political climate.
We need a trust-busting President who can get a political ground-swell of support who actually has a moral backbone, not a pot-smoking or bar-tending woman-chasing draft-dodger.
"Maker" == geek who missed shop class.
Which is why DEK named his programming system Literate Programming:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fbook...
I really wish this was more prevalent, and better supported --- that said:
http://www.literateprogramming...
makes for interesting reading and has some really cool texts such as:
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination -- but the combination is locked up in the safe. -- Peter DeVries