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Originally Posted by darryl
Rubbish. I wonder if Joe Konrath is going to expose this old chestnut as a Zombie Meme. Perhaps it is true of you, and no doubt you are not entirely alone. But for most people the opposite is true. "Best Sellers" are replaceable by other tradpub books. They are replaceable by Indie Books. And they are replaceable by and competing with other forms of entertainment. Even more so among your hypothetical two books per year people, many of whom would probably much rather see the movie in any event.
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it is also irrelevant to declining ebook sales: bandwagon buyers primarily buy pbooks at Costco.
Or Amazon. That is the BPHs last appeal to dreamers: that they can sell enough added pbooks to justify life of copyright contracts.