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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Nothing, I think. I just wanted to specify where I got the books from in case someone recalled that I rarely buy eBooks and then questioned how I would even know.
They say they offer 2 million titles. Some are just audiobooks, but most are eBooks. That's a lot of backlist. No library can afford to buy or lease more than a small portion of them. Is that what you meant?
All books are niche books. Even #1 bestsellers are only read by a small portion of readers.
Maybe, oh, fifteen percent of the books I read are, in some way, academically funded (even if usually major-published). The last one I finished was a short memoir funded by government (Germany paid for the translation). It was published, in the US, by a small independent publisher, and with an eBook price/word ratio much higher -- even with a discount -- than I'm seeing from those allegedly evil major publishers:
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...d-have-shot-me
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The price was so high because Kobo is still Agency pricing. Amazon has it for $11.99. This is what Agency pricing does - higher prices.
Here's the link for Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Grandfather-Wo.../dp/B00NVVU9DI