is it enough if I just hop around frantically waving and screaming "
Me too, me too!!!" while I point at:
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
majority of ebook readers are converted used-paperback readers, the people who are constantly looking for MORE STUFF TO READ and tired of carrying around 2-3 books at a time, and were willing to fork over $$ for a device that held them all at once. Those readers are looking for $1-5 books, and just like they were willing to scour the used book bins
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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Yep.. That's me. Almost never buy hardbacks. Don't buy full price for paperbacks if I can find it used
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
there is no publisher who sold me a full-price hardcover novel, not in the past 5 years or so anyway. I don't have the space for them. And at the rate I read, I don't have the money for them either.
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That's what the publishers aren't getting: they're "protecting" their HC sales by refusing to sell to the market that is out there waving money at them. They're too concerned about gross and not concerned enough about net, let alone volume.
They're leaving my money on the table. It's not that I don't buy books ... it's that I don't buy their books. If they want my money, they really need to do something about that.
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