Amazon Rapids is a subscription-based story service for kids raised on texting

According to my research, kids these days only love a few things: instant messaging, vaping, and, um, *checks sheet* windsurfing? It's that first one, though, that Amazon is relying on as a way to get young people interested in reading, with its new Amazon Rapids service. The subscription-based system offers a range of kids stories, but rather than being told in chapters and paragraphs, they're shown in small text message-size snippets, and presented as if the story's characters are DMing each o