Well, that’s news. I didn’t know of the disproportionate representation on the internet for fiction and poetry. I couldn’t wait; I jumped over and googled “news” and got 3.95 billion hits while “fiction” and “poetry” got 197 million and 168 million hits respectively. Other googling got the following hits: “politics”/425 million, “opinion”/411 million, “novel”/197 million, and “short story” got only 18.5 million hits. While in no way is this bit of googling results a scientific evaluation, still, it confirms the phenomenon mentioned in the article.

This makes the internet a real world exercise. I wonder if we ever get an interface more personal than a personal computer, such as a book, fiction will make the same presents it has in publication or even the book store.