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Originally Posted by Zevs
Yes Dennis I understand that, but also Borders and Barnes & Nobles and Amazon needs to sell books, and they still have a lot of these other books I'm talking about, the ones that perhaps Connect are calling "contemporary fiction" or "other fiction & literature". I'm not saying that Connect should stop offering the romance and thriller books, but just that I hope that they will keep a balance like other book stores seems to be able to do.
Zevs
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They certainly do. There is a Barnes and Noble superstore in walking distance of me, and a large Borders even closer. But walk into a bookstore and see what gets front-and-center placement. It will be best sellers, and the fiction best seller list will be skewed to romances and thrillers.
So it is with Sony Connect, I think: without getting a full list of everything on the site, it's hard to talk about relative proportions, but the stuff on the front page will be the ebook equivalent of the best seller list. That's Retailing 101: you put the stuff people will most want to buy where they can get to it quickest and easiest.
The more interesting question is how easy it is to
find the less popular stock, as well as what sort of selection there is. I couldn't say offhand, since I don't have a Sony Reader and am not a Sony Connect customer. (It
was a bit of a challenge to find and download the Sony connect software, which I plan to use to test books I create in Sony format down the road. That didn't give me good feelings about the site design.)
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Dennis