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Originally Posted by plib
This is a great board Harry. I'm glad I found it. But its total membership probably amounts to a fraction of a fraction of 1% of the book buying public. I don't want to generalize from the particular either but comparing the conversation on here with conversations in the real world I'd say that, unsurprisingly, there is a much higher percentage of bibliophiles on here than the rest of the population, and even on here that opinion is not monolithic.
There are many members here who have stated that price is a consideration. How do you think the millions who just buy a paperback at the airport or browse to Amazon to get a book feel? They still buy books, but price is a consideration. And people who don't buy books are the reason all those returns go back to the publishers, so they do enter into the picture I'm afraid.
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Oh, I entirely agree with everything you say. I just meant that I, for example, probably buy about 4 eBooks in an average week. A publisher is probably going to care more about keeping
me - an active and regular customer - happy, than he is about someone who
isn't buying his books. I'm the one who's generating his revenue, not the non-buyer.