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Originally Posted by dkb
Absolutely, but the question is: now that I have my Kindle, will I buy the hardcover if it's not available for my reader? The answer is no, I won't. I will choose something else to read at my price point in an ebook.
The other question is: would I have bought it when I was buying print books? The answer was usually no. If I didn't want to wait for the paperback, I would buy it used, or buy it greatly discounted somewhere.
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Same here. The only hardcovers I ever purchased in the past decade or so have been professional/technical books or graphics-rich "coffee table" types of things. I spend a lot of money on ebooks, none of which is revenue that the publishers would have received otherwise -- my shelves have been full for years, and my eyesight ain't what it used to be.
When I was buying fiction in "real book" form, it was almost always paperbacks, mainly used.
But I'm only a single data point, of course.