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Originally Posted by tompe
The loss of the income from the best selling hardcovers will lead to less possibility of finding new and extremely good authors. A big thing if you as a reader prefer very good books and do not want to read OK or mediocre books.
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This is the same kind of argument that can exist between hardcovers and paperbacks. The sales aren't lost, they are just exchanged for a different version of the same product First we had only hardcovers, then we had hardcovers and paperbacks, and now we have ebooks as well.
And it actually increases the chances of finding good writers. We could evolve into a system where the author posts the first chapter and the book only gets published if a certain number of people like what they read.
Aren't you getting tired of all the vampire fiction out there, which is the result of the publishers deciding that this is what the readers want to buy?