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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I wouldn't be worried about the audience itself "changing"... but that they will be so heavily exposed to Big Pub advertising and product, which will be right out front at every major books site, that they won't venture past it to find the indie content (not too different from what happens at major bookstores, in fact), and in time, may stop looking.
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That's my point.
Certain readers are already exposed to Big Pub with printed books but still choose indies ebooks. They know what they are looking for when they make this decision. On the other hand people who are not into ebooks right now, they have no idea about indies (so right now indies do not have their attention anyway) but when they will be introduced to ebooks by Big Pub they might inadvertently come across something new, aka indie, and decide to give it a go?
Well, it is just a pure speculation on my part but I do believe that if Big Pub attracts more readers to ebooks then there are more chances for indies to be exposed than as it is right now...mostly for ebooks geeks only.