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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Ever been to a used book store? What's one of the largest sections? That's right - Romance Novels.
So today, person reads romance novels. Brings bag of read novels to used bookstore. Gets a couple bucks for them. But here's the important part: picks up another bag of used romance novels for pennies on the dollar. Reads them. Brings them back to the used book store. Repeat as needed.
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You state this like it's a fact. It's not. Harlequin and several of its smaller competitors are already involved in e-books. They're already selling them. Readers are already buying them. It's been going on for a while. That's what's
really happening today. Like it or not, e-books are working their way into the mainstream on terms set by the market.
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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Tomorrow, the proposal is:
Reader spend $300+ to buy an eBook reader.
Reader spends almost full price for the eBook version, then throws them away.
Reader cannot buy the eBooks used. Reader cannot trade them in.
Doesn't seem like Harlequin "gets" anything.
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Yes, they do. The fact that you don't agree with the way it's going, doesn't change that. You're probably not one of their customers anyway.
Apparently, they "get" something. Read the announcement again. They're not dipping their toes into the pool. They already have been putting out a percentage of their new releases in e-book form. They're
increasing that to 100%. If they weren't selling, they wouldn't do that. If they weren't making money on them, they wouldn't do that.