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Originally Posted by HarryT
It would be interesting to know what proportion of the Kindle books come from publishers, rather than being "self-published". Is there any way to ascertain this?
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I only know the answer to this anecdotally - about once a week I pull up the Kindle books section for Sci Fi, Fantasy and Mystery and look at what's new. The Sci Fi section seems to have the largest number of books that are easy to recognize as self-published (from the lack of a cover to the book info). Every now and then you get a spate of books by an author, but mostly it's onesie-twosie.
And here's the thing about DRM and ePub - while I care somewhat about DRM, I also understand the WHY of it, and as long as DRM'd books are cheapish and widely available, I won't kick up too much.
E-Pub? I don't care at all. It's like Blu-Ray versus whatever, BetaMax vs VHS. Just pick a standard, I don't care which one (as long as it's not PDF), and move on.