hat's stopping Amazon from gathering a store of “more literary” short stories from respected writers and releasing them every week, putting them directly in competition with The New Yorker?

有什么可以阻止亚马逊用每周发布从有声望的作家那里收集来的短篇故事和《纽约客》直接竞争？

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I cannot explain exactly why I had the confidence to be sending off my short stories at the age of 19 to, say, the New Yorker, or why it did not destroy me when I was inevitably rejected.

我不能确切解释为什么在我19岁时有信心将我的短篇小说寄出去。

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While working on her first novel, The Lying Days, Gordimer had started to write short stories, and in 1951 had one accepted by the New Yorker.

在写她的第一篇小说《说谎的日子》时，戈迪墨开始在写一些短篇小说，在1951年其中有一篇在《纽约客》发表。

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This approach long ago became the basis for the vast majority of short stories published in the New Yorker.

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