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Old 12-17-2007, 01:00 PM   #25
mrkai
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My understanding of romance novels...

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Another is Harlequin, who is doing a good business with e-books too... romance is considered the best-selling of e-book genres in most markets.
...is that there is a much higher rate of consumption of these books and a lot of "churn" on the content side so its a volume business. They put those things out like, daily almost don't they?

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So, if these two work as well as they do, the questions are, what parts of their methods work, and how do we get the other publishers to emulate their methods (or is there some reason why they might need to alter them for their own needs)?
I think this speaks for itself in a way; other publishers do not believe their products will have the same sale/loss ratio as say Harlequin or Baen...for...whatever reason. If it is widely known that these two entities are successful, perhaps other publishers may judge success by a different metric?

It is certain worth investigating why these two examples are being "ignored" by others, I will grant you that for sure.
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