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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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Originally Posted by HarryT
You are describing the operation of the "criminal mind", Jon. What an HONEST person would do is say "OK, book 3 is available as an eBook; I'll buy 1 and 2 as paperbacks".
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Well it's one reason why eBooks don't have the acceptance they should. The publishers cannot do it so lackluster and expect eBooks to really take off. The average person won't put up with that sort of thing. |
i recently was on the Diesel Books site. i wanted to try Ian Rankin, because i have heard good reviews about his Inspector Rebus series. however, of the 17 books in this series, the
earliest one i could buy was number
13. so instead i will go to the library, even though there they will be in french.
granted, in this case i'm doing nothing dishonest, however it is still a lost sale (and potentially 17 lost sales, or more) from the publisher's point of view, and through their own fault, because they did not bother to make the series available from the beginning. i was completely ready to buy the book, and if i liked the first one i would have bought the rest of the series as well.
so i also can understand the point JSWolf is making.