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Originally Posted by issybird
Wow, talk about a “disingenuous misrepresentation”!
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When did I ever say that buying romance novels was catering to a “small subset” of readers?
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You didn't. Instead you misrepresented what someone else said as:
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I recall you thought that so long as a library served its romance patrons it was doing its job...
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As for:
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Oh, I’d forgotten that you’d let them have “one or two doorstops a month.” They are lucky.
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I'm not letting anyone have anything. But:
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And perhaps you could stop pulling figures out of your fundament to prove your point. No one, no one, not even moi, is saying that a putative library should spend a putative $100 on three “academic nonfiction books” that will be read by two readers.
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I actually didn't make those numbers up out of thin air. I was looking at IngramSpark's
How To Price an Ebook:
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Due to the lending model that libraries have, it's always in the author's best interest to price their ebook 2.5 times higher than when selling through ebook retail stores.
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So romance books with a price range from $3-5 (times 2.5) would give you ten books.
Serious nonfiction with prices between $10-15 (times 2.5) would give you three books.