Thinking about writing small iPhone novels.

I was browsing the app store tonight, checking out the new Navigon GPS which I’m thinking of buying while it’s still available at a loss leader price. On a whim I dropped into the book section of the appe shoppe and was unsurprised to see a lot of old, out of copyright titles, and a lot of other unattractive books.

Got me to wondering if there might be a market for me to directly release into the app store, particularly for something I wouldn’t necessarily want to release somewhere else. A novelette (say 15k words) set in the AoT universe. Or a WW spin off. Perhaps even a collection of fan fic with a couple of contributions from me bracketing the thing. It’s appealing because it wouldn’t involve the investment of time involved in a full novel.

It’d have to be something my publishers wouldn’t want, but enough readers would.

Interesting idea, or waste of time?