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Originally Posted by ahi
It also occurs to me that the average kindle owner's eBook purchases are restricted to amazon's list of eBooks.
This means that while those people may spend the same amount of money on books as those who buy pBooks, they have a smaller set of books to spread those purchases between... thereby inflating the eBook purchase percentages for those books.
A more useful statistic would be: how many eBooks do eBook purchases buy in a year vs. how many pBooks to pBook purchasers buy in a year? I really doubt there ought to be a big discrepancy.
I think there is little doubt that eBook device owners read more--but do they really buy more? Do people on Mobileread find that they started spending more money on books since they got their eBook reader?
- Ahi
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I spend less (through direct sales anyway). I've found there's a lot more classic literature that I might not have bought in pbook but now willlingly download and read for free (a big portion of my reading list is classics at the moment). I also actively seek out 'independent' authors who are taking risks or are more open to the new world of digital book distribution - Doctorow, of course, and Kelly Link being prime examples.
I'd say my reading has gone through the roof, whereas my actual book buying has been dramatically reduced (this could also be because I'm tired of what the major publishers have to offer me, and popular fiction seems too ridiculous to consider at the moment.)