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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
Yes, that was my point. Women have always bought the vast majority of books. Women today buy 80% of all books -- ebooks and print books included.
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Sounds about right. My thumbnail description is that "Men watch. Women read."
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Sony knew what they were doing when they co-branded the pink 300 with Harlequin last year.
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Agreed. Sony is a consumer electronics manufacturer. They want to sell devices. If they can customize a device to sell to a female audience, they'll do it in a heartbeat. It's the same sort of thing as HP offering a laptop with a case decorated by Vera Wang.
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I believe New Concepts was the first e-publishers. They date from 1995, if not earlier. They sold books on floppy disks.
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Now that you mention it, I recall them, and I believe they are still around. There were other floppy based publishers as well. What differentiated Peanut Press was licensing electronic versions of mainstream print books from major publishers. I
think they were the first to do that.
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Dennis