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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Not terribly surprising. Amazon's KU goes after the same type of reader that the indie go after, i.e. the reader who is less interested in specific authors or specific books and more interested in a more generic "stuff to read". I'm also willing to wager that we won't see authors with the major publishers having the same problem simply because 1) ebooks are still a small portion of the overall revenue stream for them and 2) their readers tend to be more focused on the specific author. No stats to back those theories, but then again, few people have any real accurate stats for the over all publishing and ebook market. They are very hard to come by. It's mostly individual authors reporting and estimates.
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Actually, indies cater to far more than people who just want generic stuff.
Indies fill the market for who really like subgenres that were sporadically catered to (at best) by the legacy publishers. Previously they bought every book that came out within that subgenre and reread them a lot. They were few and far between.
During the "between" they read other things.
Now, they don't have to. Not only do they not have to, they can search through a huge selection of offerings and narrow the ones they buy to authors who not only write within the subgenre but match their desired writing style and tone as well.
The pie is indeed being cut in more pieces.
And I am gleefully doing my level best to promote my favored subgenres.