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Old 01-27-2011, 03:08 PM   #86
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post

Authors and publishers need to figure out how much of their fanbase has never been their paid-customer base, and start working on the problem from that direction, not on the "stop people from reading what they haven't bought" idea. Most of us grew up reading books we hadn't bought.
It's the people currently buying second hand paperbacks that have the potential to massively increase publisher profits, but that will rely on the publishers getting the price/convenience factors right. I can't really see them doing that, unfortunately.
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