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Originally Posted by Snowman
GR definitely needs to be included in this and other polls.
In another thread someone reminded me that the Fictionwise advanced search included location as a criterion. So I used this for a little research.
I selected all "secure" books from April last year (when GR really started to bite), and compared availability between GB and US both overall, and for the categories that I often browse.
All books : 37% available for GB (4787/12671)
Fantasy : 59% available for GB (267/449)
Mystery : 17% available for GB (104/605)
SciFi : 11% available for GB (31/280)
Suspense : 27% available for GB (146/527)
Ouch! On average 63% of secure ebook sales are unavailable outside of the US, and worst case 89%? And remember that very few of that 63% are epublished elsewhere (at the moment, anyway).
No surprise then that my own FW purchase value over the same period dropped by over 90%, from >$500 to a few 10s of $$.
Somewhere somebody must be starting to itch, if not yet to hurt. It's not me though. I have a huge reading and re-reading list, and can always find someplace else that is happy to take my money.
Snowman
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Thanks for that. Further confirmation that publishers involved in applying GR are closely related to Dodo's.