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Originally Posted by darryl
Anecdotally I am far from alone, and I suspect that agency pricing lost the Big 5 many avid and prolific readers.
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I doubt that it lost them many at all ... anecdotally.
Mainly because you don't even have to be a book
buyer to continue to feast exclusively (as well as avidly and prolifically) on Big 5 titles.
I certainly suspect (like you) that the number of people who have proven willing to give indies a shot have created a new and profitable market for Amazon (and indie authors). I just don't think think that same demographic correlates directly to "
gave up on the Big 5 altogether." I suspect the number of people who've given up entirely on the Big 5 and now exclusively buy/read indie titles is quite small. In fact, I suspect the number of readers who know the difference between indie publishing and trad-publishing in
general is quite small.
I don't believe the vast majority of readers out there are nearly as "meta" about their favorite pastime as our membership tends to be. Most just read without thinking about how or where a book was published (or who priced it). They simply buy/borrow as their finances and wants dictate.