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Originally Posted by ficbot
I think it is a false assumption to assume that any e-sale replaces a print sale. I know that I, for one, have never bought a hardcover book in my life. It is too expensive.
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I buy lots of hardcover books written by authors I particularly like or on subjects that I am particularly interested in and wish to expand my library holdings about. By the same token, in the case of fiction, a book that is written by a favorite author means 2 sales: one for the hardcover version for my library and an ebook version. But most fiction I buy is just the ebook version -- at least to start. If I find I can't resist the ebook author's writing, then that author gets added to my hardcover buy list. So not all ebook sales replace pbook sales for me.