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I don't think this article ends up saying much of anything...genre sales are also clearly driving pbooks sales as well. It's not like James Patterson, P.D. James, Lee Childs, Janet Evanovich, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Preston & Child, etc. are any strangers to bestseller lists. Genre has dominated bestseller lists for a long time. This isn't news.
As the author notes near the end of her article:
"Publishers say that there is little real change going on, just substitution: those who buy genre books start buying digitally instead."
Of course this is right - why would you change genre preferences when you go digital?
I think the title is more linkbait than anything else; I don't think it has much substance.
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