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Originally Posted by Graham44
As for me I've just been enjoying the better/ more exciting/ unusual selection of books I now have access to shopping at multiple e-book retailers  * |
Each to their own.
While I used to stick mostly to Amazon, I also looked further afield at times. I was certainly a Project Gutenberg user long before I started acquiring ebooks from Amazon, and Smashwords has long been a site I regularly visit and acquire from. There have been various others, but a number of sites don't sell to AUS.
And as I've said, I did keep checking on Kobo for many years, until they finally improved enough, for me to become a customer, and are now my main source for ebooks.
All that said, often it is down to what type of customer you are.
For instance, it is rare for me at this stage in my reading life, to go looking for new authors deliberately. I sometimes see them in passing, where something about them motivates me enough to give them a try. A lot of that has to do with my huge reading backlog and the fact I follow many many authors.
I do admit to always thirsting for something new though. And for a number of years, I used BookBub to acquire ebooks by new authors, if mostly just the free offerings at Amazon and sometimes Kobo. That is the main reason I have over 7,000 ebooks from Amazon. I did stop using them some time back, having decided enough is enough. Most of those ebooks I will probably never read, despite being as discriminatory about those selections as I was. The chief issue being my remaining life span.
I read a lot of series, and have more than enough to keep on with. Sometimes I slip something new in, and sometimes that results in me following a new author. I thrive on some level of variety, to keep things interesting.
I follow a set reading list, but often swap things around or insert something new, all based on mood etc. I also prefer to read in published order by an author, and so I am working my way slowly through the works of many authors.