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Originally Posted by cfrizz
He made genre readers sound like a bunch of bottomless pits consuming unimportant books with little value. After all they are only written by Midlist writers who turned to self-publishing their genre books since they aren't worth the all-important Big 5 publishers' time.
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That's the part that made me wonder. Given that:
- genre readers are a bunch of bottomless pits consuming unimportant books, and
- they are only written by Midlist writers who turned to self-publishing
That should imply that there are a lot of ebooks being sold that fall outside their sales figures.
It does seem like many of the readers that are purchasing multiple books a year read ebooks.
I don't doubt that print is still the big seller. But when I see reports of falling ebook sales. I suspect that it's the Big 5's book sales that are falling as small publisher and indie sales rise.