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[QUOTE=Elfwreck;2016587]John Locke's first million sales say you're wrong.
I think you have a skewed concept of "the general public." In my mind, that includes the several-million people who spend time reading blogs and hanging out at Reddit and Fark and Livejournal, who are entirely aware that the internet is *clogged* with interesting free stuff. They may default to gatekeeper-selected reading materials most of the time, because it's worth paying someone else to winnow through the selection of what's available... but they aren't averse to other sources, and are actively involved in telling other people that you can find endless free-and-cheap entertainment online.[/]
With respect , the general public has never even heard of Fark or Livejournal, much less hung out there. Dont confuse the habits of the " technologists" with those of the general public. Remember that 80 per cent of all book purchases are print and that most people don't have ebook readers. For those people, there really is no " abundance".
Another point is that all this applies to genre fiction. For literary fiction and non fiction, there is no huge outflow of interesting new stuff.
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