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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
It's more hassle to branch out to new ebooks than it is to find a new pbook that I'd enjoy.
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I don't know what your methodology is, but for me, ebooks are a godsend.
Browse Feedbooks, read blurb. Download PDF (opens immediately in Evince), read first couple of paragraphs. If I like it, I then download the epub for later reading. If it's Gutenberg, I'll download the txt and read the first couple paragraphs, pages. If it's Waterstones then I'm paying for the book and I'm there because it's something I want, or has already been recommended and I'm taking a chance.
And none of this involves me going to a bookstore, which would take hours.
So far this year, through Feedbooks alone, I've been introduced to:
Kelly Link, Benjamin Rosenblum, Small Stories, Nick Name, Moxie Mezcal (brand new find, only today). The traditional publishing industry has very little to offer me that I can't find with the independents or what some would so derisively call "self-published".