Thread: Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction
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Old 02-15-2012, 01:01 PM   #176
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan View Post
As nice as it is that downmarket genre fiction (and I prefer to think of it as simply "popular fiction"--"downmarket" sounds so elitist), it would be as nice if the "popular" segment was as enthusiastic about new authors and new ideas.
I was kind of confused by "downmarket genre fiction," too. At first I thought that she was distinguishing between "big publisher genre fiction" - selling at, say $7; and "downmarket" genre fiction - self published and sold for like $3.

But as I read on it looks like that wasn't what she was talking about. In which case I'm not really sure what "downmarket" means. A book by James Patterson or Stephen King doesn't sell for less than a book by Jonathan Franzen or John Fowles.
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