|
Right now, when I hear about a book that sounds interesting, I check to see if there's an ebook version. And for a lot of books, that is its one chance to make a sale - if it doesn't exist, I've moved on to a book that does. In a few cases, I'll check back once or twice but it has to have some pretty exceptional reviews from friends for me to make that effort.
I definitely won't buy the book in hardback - before I went to ebooks almost exclusively, there was probably a 50-50 split on authors that I knew and trusted but an almost 0% chance that I'd buy an unknown author in hardback before.
On the other hand, I buy a lot more and take a lot more risks with unknowns and random recommendations than I ever did with physical copies. Overall, the publishing industry gets more of my money. But a specific publisher that delays ebook releases is going to get a lot less of it - and not because of a particular grudge or boycott, but because if they wait, I'll have probably received another 50 recommendations since then.
|