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Originally Posted by nekokami
We have a poll on this. Well over 50% of MR members re-read many of their books. Our audience may not be "typical," but we may be closer to "typical book-buyers" than you are assuming.
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I'd say the people here aren't the typical best selling book buyer. The most of those millions of sales are going to casual readers. But the people here are probably pretty typical of the types of people buying more obscure books, visiting the bookstore weekly (at least before switching to ebooks) etc.
The avid readers (here and in general) are buying bestsellers too of course. It's just that they're a tiny chunk of the market for a book selling millions, were as they are a bigger chunk of sales for more obscure books. So the best seller publisher doesn't care much about catering to the avid readers who are more likely to re-read books etc.
And when we're talking about the iPad--that's not being marketed to avid readers like dedicated e-ink devices are--it's more going to be the bestseller crowd making up the largest chunk of people reading on it.
i.e. the young, tech savvy crowd that buys it for the multimedia stuff and buys the occasional Twilight or Harry Potter type of book on it.
For me personally, I don't care at all about DRM. I seldom ever re-read a book, and for the few I want to re-read and keep around I always buy a physical book as I still prefer reading them to e-books. The main reason I love e-books is there's not physical book to have to store or sell/donate/give away when I finish it and know I'll never read it again--which is 99% of books I read for leisure.