Do people read fiction on blogs?

Do you?

The first thing is that people (excludes bloggers ) do not read too much and if they do, they would be looking around for tech reviews and film gossips. The open fact is that the largest audience for bloggers is either co bloggers or google. And for story blogs, the traffic from google is almost nill. If one is really interested in reading a story, one would mostly prefer to read a published book (either in print or in digitral format) rather than roaming around on the blogosphere. o, if you really interested in writing stories and get recognised for the same, spending a year or two in writing the book would be a better option. Blogs, to a certain extent, may help in improving writing skills.

The answer is 'NO' TF. Fiction has to be read on printed paper. And that too in a book. Let it be stories, poem, or Novel. E-reading doesn't work out.

But you must go on blogging. Because blogging is an easy way to get your thoughts out of your mind. They do not get lost. When they gets published on blog, they become immortal. That's not a small thing.

TF - my take on it. Fiction writers enjoy reading other fiction blogs. I personally bookmark some fiction blogs that I really like and do keep stopping by every once in a while to read the latest. There are some really good fiction bloggers out there. As far as blogger reciprocation goes, its true for any and every genre. As far as finding a bigger audience goes, you can find other similar-interest people but whether it would help you take your stories to a whole different level, well, I am not very confident about that unless they are established writers themselves who can help you take your fiction further, but then IMO established writers hardly have time to visit others' blogs. They're busy promoting their own and with good cause, can't blame them. That being said, I also think that you should keep exploring other avenues too like the Penguin Short stories book publication contest, HP, Grey Oak Yuva, Chicken Soup etc. 

I'll have to agree with Ranjith he put it up well. Unless I stumble upon a good blog with fiction, I don't actively search for them unlike reviews and tech stuff. I however do read such blogs of people whom I already know, and that is the key here perhaps. Moreover the no. of bloggers writing fiction is less (comparitively) than of other genres which  Ihave seen myself. If you want to write why not publish a book?

For me, I wouldn't have written a single thing elsewhere that I wrote on my blog if i didn't had that blog. Thats the primary use of my blog and only use of various rankings. The readers may call them defamating facts(when I write fiction) or unbelievable fiction (when I write facts). But whatever may be that the point is that it is my blog does instigate me in to writing. I would like to know what's the case with you.

my view is that if you want to get published and don't want to cry hoarse that your idea got copied by smart Alec. restrain.

I have a fiction blog and as per my understanding it's mostly my friends, fellwo blogers and sometimes random people directed by google come to my blog and read stories.

I feel very rarely someone will go online and search for a fiction to read, but once someone is hokked to your writting stle and loves you stories they will come back to your blog again and again !!

Hi TF. I agree with sweta here. People dont specifically search for fictions, but if a rapport is built with a blogger, they come again to read. Personally, I prefer to read best selling writers like you do. Though if somebody tells me to read a certain blog and if i like it, blogger gets the brand loyalty. :)

I am new to this blogging syndrom, what i observed in one month of blogging is that the day I posted one fiction I got two follower, one post on our country which was even published by DNA didnt fetch any follower. Moreover with the increase in number of tablets and galaxy note, i think people will read a good story. Global trends also suggest that people are shifting from print to digital.

I completely agree with Infected Mind. Fiction can't be read on screen. E-reading can only be for getting information( eg: wikipedia) .

Because when you read news, informaion comes into you but when you read a story, you get into the story. You can't get into your computer screen as you get into a book.

You can't enjoy E-reading if you need to slide the scroll bar finish a story. So the story must be too short.

I read fiction on blogs... Especially those with humorous posts.

TF. I would suggest you to start wtv venture u want to start. People who like you already would for sure read you and that will bring more audience. Though new ideas face lots of hardships but you never know when you will set a trend. Moreover, a new fiction daily seems really good. Blogposts have made so many non-readers-readers. And have given so many people who are interested in reading a decent page to follow. Lots of my friends, who had no clue what to read where to read have started reading me(though i dont write that great still) and the pages i recommend to them. They ask me where to go. Again once on hard copy, one still don't know if he/she will be read or not. I feel if you can manage a fictional, interesting read, that is neither too long nor too short, you can fetch much of an audience. Plus social netwroking sites like twitter, google+, and facebook provide extra traffic and recommendations. (I have strength in Hindi Poetry, which I do not publish much in my blog. Plus not many people read it, so i have to struggle alot) Fictions of different kinds are everybody's taste! I got increament in followers after writing a few fictions. People Like them. All the best!

I do not know about other people, but I know that I do not read fiction on blogs. I do not even read fiction! At times, I find this peculiar because one of the greatest books that I have ever read was Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Stefan Molyneux has some fictional books available at freedomainradio.com. I may read some of those some day.

Contrary to few ppl who said above, I have equal preference reading online or on talblets (I have read many novels on my cell phone! can be irritating at times but I do when I really want to)

Most ppl do prefer reading from a real book in their hands or in some cases an e-book which they get off from the internet for not wanting to buy, otherwise reading fiction from blogs is not something I would do by myself (which I and others already stated) The issue is not reading on a screen, but from random blogs.

According to me, it is not convenient to read long stories on the computer. I do read books on the cellphone to kill time. But the kindle version or the book itself is my most preferred read. I dont mind reading really short stories from the blog, especially when i trust the blogger to give me a good time :)

I have read a lot of fiction books which are free (from Amazon). I have also noticed that people who release their book free on Amazon, usually write a series with 2 or 3 books following the first one, which probably will not be free. There are some books which are free for some period of time only.

That is what I am trying to get an idea of the opinion to see if there is a market - In case if a site like story in pieces is created where everyday a good story comes up, will there be regular readers to make it sustainable?

I will read any good fiction in my preferred device when i trust the author. So, i would suggest you start broadcasting your fiction, gain trust and loyal followers who will follow into the site also. Social media, FB groups would be helpful here. I would really encourage you to upload a e-book version because it is real hard to enjoy a book on the laptop.

Good Luck!

To The Fool:

I do not think that the medium through which fiction is offered is critical for its success. I read non-fictional blogs--because I prefer informative and factual information. I prefer non-fiction because of those stated reasons, so I can benefit from non-fiction regardless of whether it is on a blog or on the computer, or on television, on in a newspaper, or in a book, or on a CD/DVD/audiocassette, or other medium.  Those who prefer fiction do so for issues irrelevant of its medium: perhaps they prefer to be entertained, or perhaps the character(s) is/are interesting to them. There was a time when fiction was not even available in the books of today; there was a time when stories were told to one person to another, and that is even how it passed from one generation to the next. (Has no one heard of The Mahabharata?)

If someone likes fiction, but likes it only in a certain format, then that person is not using his/her thought processes to their logical conclusion, and is not being consistent with his/her own beliefs.

I believe there are two routes that I could probably explore but each one is for a different purpose.

The problem today is getting self-published is easy but selling a book is not as simple because bigger publishing houses invest in publicity and that helps sell more books.

If one looks at well known authors, the idea is to keep the readership engaged through various means online and offline and this is where blogs oe Twitter come into the picture. The day they have a book being released that is when they can tap into the readership and be able to get the mileage and leverage in selling their books.

Also today the books have to cater to all formats from a hardcopy to soft versions on Amazon for laptops and tablets.

To answer the question if one reads fiction on blogs, personally I do read and if a person comes out with engaging content and then I would go out and by his or her book to be able to see the difference and the more difference in the content then the better it is.

As for people copying the content, that is not going to stop but a smart person is one who writes engagin content but is able to end the stories in unconventional manner and be original because the best defense is usually to be able to tell the story with different endings and each one with a twist :).

Short stories or a novel in episodes would definitely read 

I beg to disagree with you. Mahabharatha was born when it was written. It was written down by Ganapathy when Vyasa recited it to him. From then onwards people read it. On leaves and now on paper.

You may or may not be correct. However--unless I see evidence to the contrary--it is my strong belief that The Mahabharata is a collection of very ancient stories that were told orally from one person to another and from one generation to another until a human wrote it on some medium. The events related in The Iliad and The Odyssey occurred about 400 years before the time of Homer, so those stories were most definitely oral in origin. The oldest written story, The Epic of Gilgamesh was most likely oral in origin. And of course the Biblical story of the Flood was most definitely oral in origin.

I hate reading bad quality print of classic novels. 

That is just a personal mannerism; it does not detract from objective qualities. Moreover, do you really hate reading bad quality print of classic novels? Do you prefer to drink bad milk out of a beautiful bottle, or to drink good milk out of an ugly bottle?