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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Which is why it is a good thing. No publisher is ever going to be interested in a suspense thriller set within the world of professional snail racing that is only going to sell a couple hundred copies. So all the people who were desperate to read something like that had to do without. Now they don't. People who want to read about boy wizards and sparkly vampires can still do so, so there is really no losers in this.
It's like the cassette culture in the UK in the late 70s. People who wanted to listen to Abba or the Bee Gees weren't affected by it at all, but it enabled people to hear Danny and the Dressmakers or the Instant Automatons, something they would never have been able to do otherwise.
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Assuming they can find what they like (or even find out what they like) amidst all the sh*t.