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Originally Posted by sakura-panda
The point of the thread is that if an author is interested in their own product -- an ebook -- then it seems reasonable to expect them to have a device for using that product.
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Why? I'm not trolling, I'm serious.
Authors write and -- ideally, in my opinion -- when they finish writing, they self-publish. Back in the day, this was prohibitive because "self-publish" meant "find a printer" and resulted in a small run of extremely high-priced books that most people simply couldn't afford.
Now they can self-publish for nothing and the world is better for it.
Whether or not an author owns an eReader is immaterial. Some authors will research formatting (or will pay to have it done) and will turn out flawless files without ever loading it to a device; others will have 6 eReaders and it won't occur to them to test their book on any of them. Strange but true.
I've not yet heard a good reason for why an author should invest in an eReader device before self-publishing as an eBook. (And considering how much the files vary on different devices, I think the only logical conclusion to this argument is that authors must own EVERY eReader device.)