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I selected "other".
I have never been a “hard cover” buyer--too expensive (oh maybe at the Dollar Tree I have picked some up!). I have purchased and received many paperback books as gifts over the years and my house is overrun with books! Even though I have donated many after reading them.
After I received my reader for Christmas last year I have bought around 6 pbooks. But, I have bought more eBooks then I normally would have bought in paper. I can’t say the publishers are losing money from me. Especially since I used to buy a lot of second hand books which the publishers were not making any profit on anyway.
There are many eBooks I have purchased that I probably would not have purchased as pbooks. Not that I didn’t enjoy them, but no room for pbooks and searching in a book store for something that might catch my eye is not as easy as finding them on the internet.
Now, I do have some computer programming books and other non-fiction which are paper and I don’t think eBooks will take the place of them yet. I may need to flip back-and-forth in the manual which is not that convenient on a reader.
So, although pbook sells are probably down the upside for Publishers is people are still buying the books as eBooks. So what does it matter, they must be making a better profit. They just need to cut out printing so many pbooks and start concentrating on eBooks a bit more.
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