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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If mainstream publishers want my ebook dollars, they'll put out editions in a price I'm willing to pay. If they're under the impression that they own the ebook market the way they own the physical book market, they're very mistaken. Many brick-and-mortar stores won't carry self-published or tiny-publisher books... but plenty of online ebook stores will.
They're facing a lot more competition than they want to acknowledge. All their marketing strategies are based on the assumption that big-name publishers' only real competition is other big-name publishers--not small indie companies, and certainly not individual authors scattered around the web.
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I rarely read published books let alone published ebooks. Honestly, I bought my device to read the 100 - 200k word fan fiction stories I keep running across.
I see no reason to spend more than 6 dollars on an ebook when there is free fiction online as well as affordable independent publishers like you mentioned.
But yes, for most people the ebook reader was their birthday and x-mas gift for the year.