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I don't think we all neatly fit into those categories, nor that those cover everyone. (But they're a good starting point for discussion.)
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Yes, I know. And some of us migrate. Before I came to the forum I was in the 2nd category, moving towards the 3rd. But then I started to read how the publishers are going to increase ebook prices, and complain about everything, and I went to the 4th. Plus there are many public domain books that I want to read, so I'm partially in the 5th as well.
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I don't think they all work in the industry, although I believe several of them have done so at some point. Watching them dodge around Baen's success is always fascinating.
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I'm mostly here. (You missed fanfic. I may never run out of Sherlock Holmes slash to read. Certainly, any new book that wants my money is going to have to convince me it's likely to be at least as entertaining as what I can get for free at the Archive of Our Own.) |
I never read fanfic so I didn't think about it. The number of works in the Archive is impressive. Could you recommend some? I have the very unhealthy habit of going the methodical way when I read webcomics and blogs and I don't think that I can go that way here.
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With no ebook equivalent of the "$5/bag bargain book sale," authors have no way of reaching new audiences that aren't specifically seeking them. Right now, with the ebook market being all new and weird, this doesn't seem to matter; nobody knows how much word-of-mouth and booksharing has ever affected pbook sales nor how to translate that to digital sales. But I firmly believe that eventually, the digital marketplace will be dominated by authors who have figured out how to get at least some of their work to go viral.
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The publishers focus too much on the fact that ebook sales can cut into the pbook sales. They treat the two as separate, so they want to increase both prices in order to make the same profit from each as they would have had if there were only pbooks. They seem horrified by the thought of any bargain sale for ebooks, and they are spending too much on the wrong type of marketing because they don't understand how the internet works.