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Originally Posted by issybird
I think ereaders (the people, not the devices) of the voracious type have been very slow to adapt their buying/hoarding habits to the new reality*. Back in the paper day, you needed a backlog, so you always had something to read on hand. There also was the factor that you had to pick something up when you saw it, as it might not be available later**. Both of these factors have been largely obviated by digital books so there's no reason to have a huge virtual stack of unread books, but old habits die hard, as they say.
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If one's reading is limited to NY Times top twenty, then perhaps your hypothesis is correct.
If one's reading is in niche fields, then titles come and go all of the time.
There are several ebooks (and dead tree editions) that used to be available from Amazon, but are no longer listed there. Not listed, as in there is no page for either the title, or the author.
I've got ebooks from half a dozen defunct publishers. Nobody is selling those titles.