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Originally Posted by stonetools
If you can't afford an ebook reading device, you're not in the ebook market. QED.
Generally, if you can afford a PC, Internet access and one or two ebook reading devices, you should be able to afford ebooks.
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You sound like the people who say "if you can afford a car and insurance for it, you can you afford to drive 60 miles to a minimum-wage job." Being able to afford the container doesn't automatically bring the money to fill it up as often as would be useful.
I can afford a PC, internet access, and a reading device. Two, even. I cannot possibly afford to buy every word I intend to read on them. I count on a *lot* of free reading material; if it didn't exist, I wouldn't have bought an ereader.
Of course, the other side of that is that I won't be buying mainstream bestsellers, and since switching from print to e, I don't read them secondhand either. Which means I don't discover new mainstream authors I like; my reading sticks to fanfic and indie authors. Shrug. If I were in any danger of running out of things to read, I might worry about that; as it stands, it doesn't matter to me that I've never read, and am never likely to read, anything by Jasper Fforde or Audrey Niffenegger. I used to enjoy Stephen King's works; I don't know if I'd care for his newer works because they're not in formats I buy.
I'm also raising two avid readers who are oblivious to bestseller lists. People concerned about the future of publishing should be paying attention to what the 15-20 year-old crowd is reading and what they're buying when they have money.
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Even so, BPHs do sell huge numbers of ebooks. I have yet to see a list that was was not dominated by BPH books.
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How shocking--an industry with a hundred years of marketing and household placement beats an industry that's barely 10 years old with no publication standards.
Before Amazon changed their popularity rankings, indie books were about 30% of the top-100 lists. They decided to change their algorithm to weight the ranking by price of the ebook, rather than just counting numbers of sales.