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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Anyway, I'm not saying they have to review e-books... just that I've never gotten the impression that they have much interest in doing so.
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The problem is that very few people involved in these sites like to read e-books.
There is a very good - one my top 2 alongside Lou Anders at Pyr - sff editor Jonathan Strahan who lives in Australia and due to shipping costs he receives most of his arcs for review, mentioning... in e-form and he emphatically asked everyone not to send him such anymore since it costs him too much to print them out. I think I put a comment on the existence of devices - not 100% if to Mr. Strahan or someone else who wrote in the same vein - that help with e-book reading as opposed to using a pc, or print them out, but usually the answer is "nice but so what, it still does not cut it with me, I want my print book even if it's on my crappy printer"
Very, very entrenched attitude.
Reviewers sometimes try some small presses books including POD, so it's less than a "non-major, no interest thing", but more of a "print pretty please thing"...