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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I'd agree on the Doctorow front, he basically has his own marketing wing through the popularity of BoingBoing. I'm very interested to see how he'll approach selling his books when the paper trade starts tailing off. As it is he loses nothing at all from giving away his wares, because paper sales make up the bulk of his income. I wonder if he'll turn his coat once the paper sales fall away?
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I'm not entirely convinced the paper sales will fall away any time soon. I have no doubt that ebooks and devices are the future but at the moment it's simply not attracting your average reader and that's probably going to take a couple of generations of people growing up with the technology before it really makes a dent on treeware.
Cost is of course a major factor, once the devices can be picked up for little at your local supermarket or possibly subsidised by some sort of contract like mobile phones then things might take off.
In the UK things are even slower than the US where the Kindle has at least had a lot of media coverage. Half the people who see my reader didn't even know they existed.
