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Originally Posted by ficbot
NO. You are not reading what I said. I am saying I did NOT buy the paper version. In the old days, I would wait for the paperback or get from the library or used book store. I have never bought hardback fiction in my life. I would NOT previously have bought the paper version, will not buy it now, and the only way they will get a sale out of me is to sell me an ebook. It's not a question of not buying the paper 'anymore.' It's a question of now buying something when previously I would have bought NOTHING AT ALL. That is NOT cannibalization.
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What has hardback vs paperback to do with the question?
As it happens, I
do buy hardcover fiction. So do a lot of other folks, which is why the New York Times has a Fiction as well as a Non-fiction hardcover best seller list.
But my original suggestion was the ebooks would cannibalize mass market PB editions. This simply meant that an increasing number of folks would buy the ebook instead of the PB, to the point where it was no longer economic to
produce the MMPB edition, as no one would buy it.
You're one of the folks that buys the ebook instead. The fact that you will flatly refuse to buy a print edition, and will do without if the book isn't available as an ebook is irrelevant to the question. From where I sit, ebooks
have cannibalized the MMPB editions in your case, as you no longer buy paperbacks.
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Dennis