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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I voted "other."
I think the biggest threat to the publishing industry is free content online. Not "free ebooks," but content: blogs, news, cat macros, discussion forums, email lists, chatrooms...
Publishers don't have a direct problem with people who don't read. Even knowing that 80 years ago, they had a larger percentage of the population to sell to, well, we've balanced out the smaller percentage of readers-for-pleasure with larger numbers of them, with more leisure time.
Which they are often spending reading... blogs.
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I think this is a good point, but I'm not sure that I entirely agree with it, because on several occassions I have purchased books after reading
stuff on the internet that has peeked my interest in a subject.
My vote went to 'Content not available' because several publishers could have made a sale if the content had been available in an ebook format.
Price is a close 2nd for me. Once again, publishers would be getting a lot more money from me if they would just bundle an author's books at a reduced price. There are a lot of authors whose entire collections I'd like to purchase, but even at $6 a piece for prolific authors like Agatha Christie it is just too much.