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Originally Posted by Notjohn
Early days, I worked in what was then called an Educational Television station. When a cameraman or director goofed, someone was sure to say: "Don't worry -- nobody's watching anyhow!"
I suspect much the same is true of poetry in e-books. Check out the sales ranking of Donald Hall, once America's poet laureate. Or even Seamus Heaney, our very own Dylan Thomas: #386,822 Paid in Kindle Store for his top-ranked poetry book (even I out-sell Seamus Heaney!).
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Yes, that's my other concern. Perhaps three years ago I opened a thread asking poetry readers for their opinions. So far as I remember there was a consensus that people would not use landscape view to read poetry. One poster specifically stated that he would never read poetry on an ereader because the visual effect intended by the poet's author could not be reproduced. The difficulty is getting that across to the publisher and author of the collection I'm working on.