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Originally Posted by GeoffR
But wouldn't it be better if the grocer didn't mix all the different grades of avocados together in the first place? I'd give my business to another grocer, one that didn't try to trick me into buying crappy avocados by mixing them in with the good ones.
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You would rather see ebooks sorted by path to market?
It's easy to do at Amazon, you know.
I've been doing it for five years going on six to make sure I don't give money to the members of the price fix conspiracy. (Or the AU gang.)
What I can't do and is never going to happen is avoid running into their books among those from honest traditional publishers. Doesn't bother me none. If anything, every time I see their prices it helps me remember why I boycott them in the first place.
You've got your shopping criteria, I have mine.
I simply don't pretend mine are anything but personal choice; I don't try to defend them or ask others to join me or change their stores to avoid the inconvenience of facing the reality that BPH titles are not going to disappear overnight to make me feel better.
And neither are indie titles.
In fact, there's at least one Agent who admits indies will continue taking market share away from all tradpubs pretty much indefinitely:
http://annerallen.com/2016/01/publis...evolution.html
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13) Indie authors will continue to take market share from traditionally published authors.
If you’re a fan of Hugh Howey and Data Guy and their Author Earnings report (and I am!), you already know that the statistics being handed to us by publishers and traditional organizations like Pew, BookScan, and BISG are way skewed towards the old publishing paradigms.
Indie authors ARE grabbing market share from traditionally published authors and I believe that trend will continue. In fact I think there is a schism in the reading marketplace developing between those readers who will not blink an eye spending $35 for a hardcover first edition book from their favorite author and those who regularly balk at paying more than 99 cents for an indie author ebook—or even a multi-author anthology!
This is especially true in genres like romance, science fiction, mysteries, fantasy, thrillers and graphic novels/comics. The traditional book market is shrinking while the indie market is growing. It’s not difficult to see where the growth is coming from Indie books are eating away at big book publishers. This should become indisputably obvious this year.
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The whole article is worth reading: it comes from somebody whose livelihood depends on tradpub and who needs to find ways to remain relevant in an age when the default path to market for newcomers will be to go indie.