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Originally Posted by hgwlackey
One thing about ebooks that gets overlooked in the usual "cannibalizing sales" discussions is that while you see a lot of people who say they read about the same amount after getting an ebook reader, and a fair number saying they read more (some of them, like me, significantly more) since getting an ebook reader, you don't see many saying their reading has dropped off a cliff since they got that ebook reader.
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Certainly. Ebooks dramatically increase the
convenience of reading.
And forget about dedicated ebook readers. If I were publishing ebooks, I'd be going after the smartphone market as hard as I could. People may not carry anything
else when they are out and about, but they will
always have their phone, and if they have a reader app on it, they will always have a book (and likely more than one) to read, wherever they may be.
Ebooks increase the
time you have to read, because you can do it anywhere at any time.
Ebooks
do cannibalize sales of printed versions. If you get a title as an ebook, you're unlikely to also acquire it in paper.
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But first publishers have to stop acting like ebooks are the poor relations they wish hadn't shown up uninvited to the family dinner.
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As soon as they figure out how to make money publishing them, they will.
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Dennis