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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Disconnect? Not really. It seems obvious to me that what the authors mean is that books are not consumer goods from the stand point that people do not go out and buy generic books. They go out and buy the latest J.K. Rowlings or whomever is their favorite author. Sure, there are a handful of people who buy "generic books", some of whom are quite vocal here, but they are outliers. There are some genres where the author isn't nearly as important as the imprint. The old Harlequin romance novels are prime examples, but by in large, the people are looking for something specific when they buy a book. The majority of the time, it's the author's name. That's why authors can move between publishers and people still buy their books at more or less the same rate.
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So..... Romances are generic books? Is Science Fiction generic? Is Fantasy generic? Or is just those special snowflakes that signed that special letter to BOD that have **REAL** non-generic books. You are one condescending piece of work.
Because, you know those generic books are making a shitload of money for the publishers. Kameron Hurley
reports on her blog that even though she sold out her first run of paper books on her latest novel, she's saying that 70% of her sales are ebooks. But that's just genre generic. Doesn't mean anything. Right?