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Originally Posted by issybird
I haven’t listened to the podcast.
Essentially I think distinctions are being fudged and positions misstated and a lot of fighting words applied injudiciously.
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Your opinions would have a lot more resonance if you had first hand knowledge of what you were talking about.
But honestly, I don't care too much about what you think of who is using the word 'snob' anyway. More interesting to me is this:
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...most ebooks are genre fiction (which I’d say is true and Ezra Klein at the NYT agrees).
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Sure. But is that not the same case with paper books?
The main thrust of the story was that with the arrival of the Kindle in 2007 people assumed that ebooks would take over the way digital music supplanted physical media, and that has not happened. Instead, ebooks sales soared at first, leveled out and then dropped.
And while ebooks didn't completely replace paper books, I think that reports of their sales figures are way off. They don't take in sales from small/indie publishers or Amazon's own imprints.
If the most popular paper book segments are now the most popular ebook segments, then ebooks are doing just fine.
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...someone can read 10, 20 romance novels to one academic history. This is one of my issues with libraries in general, that they buy a lot more romance and chicklit than other fiction and serious nonfiction. It’s because of circulation, of course, but it’s not really fair on the person who likes doorstops and only reads one or two a month.
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Why not? If the library purchases one or two doorstops a month you are fine. Why should you care how many romance novels they purchase? And in the end the library is buying those books because they are the ones that get checked out the most. So it seems they are doing their job.