Thread: Are you prepared to pay the same price for an ebook as for the print book?
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Old 07-23-2017, 08:03 AM   #90
John F
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I really think it's a different market, John, to that of the average MR member.

The "best sellers" are the type of books you find heavily discounted at supermarket checkouts, etc. They're priced to be loss-leaders: to encourage people to come to the supermarkets and buy other stuff while they're there. They sell more numerically (which is why they're best-sellers, of course), but I doubt that the typical buyer of such books is a big ebook buyer.
We just don't have the numbers.

Heavy discounted or not, they are what is selling the most. Rowlings vs Francis: 300 to 1. Although MR buying/reading habits are interesting, so is the average reader, to me.
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