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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
I think that it's right to counsel caution about where this might go, because it could sharply continue to 6% and then plateau for 5 years, just as it could move to be market dominant in 3 years. Still, it looks likely to me that ebooks are set to become a significant slice of the pie for the first time very soon.
I'm not convinced that publishers are moving nearly fast enough to react to this. Making back-catalogues available at the current quality would be easy and cheap, and provide a dominant position in the ebook space for the publishers who were prepared to do it.
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Great analysis and speculation, thank you.
And now for my
much smaller contribution.
I've seen over and over, here on MR, where people say how many ebooks they have bought and/or downloaded (free ebook as opposed to pirated).
I now have more ebooks on my reader than I can read in a year. I helped to increase those numbers!
But now I'm not buying much more. What about the rest of you?
And insofar as to the "loss" of sales to pirated ebooks? How many were downloaded
just because they could? How many of those will even be read?
I've seen where people are saying things like
"Boy! When I put 15,000 books on my reader it really slows it down!"
Will they be reading those in the next few months? And then buying another 10,000 - 15,000? Don't think so.