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Originally Posted by ficbot
I agree that ebook sales are going to change the way publishers do business, but I think it is a mistake to bank your whole premise on the idea that all of these ebook customers would have bought the paper book otherwise. We have seen enough anecdotal stories from people on this forum to indicate that this is not always true. They will lose *some* sales. They will gain other sales from former library and used book store users who never bought from them in the first place.
I forget the name for it, but there a word for those logic statements that don't really follow. You know, like 'candy is pink, girls like candy, therefore girls like pink.' The whole 'ebook sales are rising, paper sales are falling, therefore if we stop the ebook sales, all those people will buy the paper instead' argument strikes me as being on that level.
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I actually have bought a ton more books and have been reading a lot more since I got my Kindle three years ago. I have never been one to really love going into the bookstore and shop. I hate shopping in general. Book shopping was more palatable but still was not fun for me. So I had pretty much stopped reading, mainly because I was too lazy to go to the book store or the library.
Once I got my Kindle that changed. I have bought close to 300 books and have been reading about 30 books a year. A good number of those 300 books are books I had already read and wanted to have on my Kindle and my In Laws love giving me Amazon gift certificates for Christmas and my Birthday.