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Originally Posted by tompe
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.
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Most people *don't* read a lot of books.
You can't extrapolate from the likes of us.
Most people don't shop for "something to read" but rather for specific books.
Casual readers aren't avid readers with a smaller book budget but rather people with other things in their life. If they don't find the title somebody told them was a good read they don't turn around and buy the next pretty cover they see; they just shrug and go on to watch a ballgame.
That is why Amazon sells used books.
For avid readers books are somewhat fungible but not for casual readers. And those folks make up some 70% of the book buying population.