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Originally Posted by fjtorres
To the author it is a lost sale.
And if you're looking for a specific title and don't find it there are other things to do with the time, money, and attention. Movies, tv, video, a nice bike ride...
That is why windowing doesn't work for books.
Books don't exist in a vacuum and most don't have a "book budget" but rather an entertainment budget.
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How can you know that? Maybe the authors last book will sell less copies if many back list books are available. Very few people are looking for specific back list titles.
And from the publishers perspective it is the total number of books they sell that are interesting.
If you read a lot of books you probably have book budget, food budget, other budgets, and entertainment budget. In that order. If you do not read a lot of books you will probably by the new books so back list book availability is not relevant.