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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
It may be a genre thing. But seeing as how I grew up reading SFF (Tolkien, Brooks, Donaldson, etc...), I can assure you that noticing the publisher is not a general trait of genre readers. It wasn't (isn't) for me by any means. I've never picked up a book in the store or in the library because of the publisher name/logo. That sort of thing just wasn't even on my radar when looking for books to read. I just went to the SF section. That was all the filtering I needed.
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Same here. And of course visiting a site like Bean is very much analogous to visiting the SF/Fantasy section of a bookstore. It does not mean that you like even the vast majority of what they publish. I suppose if you like 90% of the books a particular publisher publishes then it would make good sense to regularly check their new releases. But this would never have even occurred to me since publishers are usually just not on my radar. Even now I could not tell you who publishes most of the books I read.