is there an ereader market for straight men?

[hermes]

Originally Posted by elizilla

There's plenty of PUA literature out there. Maybe he hasn't discovered it yet, or he'd be complaining about being a beta male.

I do not understand. And yes, I am a theta male.

[hermes]

Originally Posted by patrickt

C'mon folks. What are the chances a straight guy would have a screen name of Hermes? What, was Bruce already taken?

Yes. And so was Hermes Pan, the choreographer of Fred Astaire. But HP was bisexual. I'll buy anything sexual too.

[ardeegee]

Originally Posted by hermes

I *am* however suggesting that leather boys do not lead the rainbow parade celebrating Roman legion tactics.

Okay, are you sure that you aren't ps249?

Originally Posted by hermes

Yes. And so was Hermes Pan, the choreographer of Fred Astaire. But HP was bisexual. I'll buy anything sexual too.

Fred who? (My avatar was already that way, I swear!)

[DiapDealer]

I think I hear a death knell.

[cfrizz]

I know that I just put this .... on my ignore list!

[crich70]

Originally Posted by hermes

"I never said that bookbuyers are overwhelmingly women and gay. I said that female and gay consumers constituted the largest niche markets for fiction."

Actually you did say that if you look over the snippet of your post above women = female and gay=gay you just rephrased it a bit whether you realized it or not. There might be a grain of truth to the first part (about women) though as the Romance market is where the largest share of books are published each year and I imagine most (though not necessarily all) of the book buyers in that genre are women simply because more women than men read romances. Though you don't have to be gay to read romance novels either.

[SeaBookGuy]

Originally Posted by CazMar

I was going to ask my partner about this - but I took one look at him (6 foot 4" in socks and usually found dismantling his car) and decided it was probably a really stupid question!
And yes, he likes reading, but usually on his phone.
Could one reason the phone/ebook reader might be more popular with men than a dedicated ebook reader be the ability to carry the phone clipped to a belt? Do they perceive the ebook reader as too fragile-looking? Is there a market for a chunkier ebook reader with a set of socket spanners built into the back? (OK - I'll take my tongue out of my cheek now!)

It's generational -- young ladies read on their phones here.

[caleb72]

Wow - so much contention! I thought the original post was hilarious. I was so glad I was not drinking anything at the time or I would have turned into a human fountain.

Sometimes people just have a particularly cheeky way of phrasing things. I can appreciate that. I particularly liked this later in the discussion:

I *am* however suggesting that leather boys do not lead the rainbow parade celebrating Roman legion tactics.

How can anyone be offended by something so laugh-out-loud funny?

[caleb72]

Originally Posted by crich70

Actually you did say that if you look over the snippet of your post above women = female and gay=gay you just rephrased it a bit whether you realized it or not.

I think you're rebutting the wrong thing here. What you quoted from Hermes was actually his friend telling him off presumably for this in the first post:

A publisher friend in NYC tells me that book buyers are overwhelmingly females and homosexual men. Truth or fact?

[Ea]

Originally Posted by caleb72

Wow - so much contention! I thought the original post was hilarious. I was so glad I was not drinking anything at the time or I would have turned into a human fountain.

Sometimes people just have a particularly cheeky way of phrasing things. I can appreciate that. I particularly liked this later in the discussion:

How can anyone be offended by something so laugh-out-loud funny?

But you must admit that all the righteous anger of posters in this thread just made the whole thing even more funny

I thought the OP was pretty funny and too ironic to be taken seriously (much). Yet, there is a grain of truth in there. Just yesterday I read an article in the newspaper about how little men read in comparison to women, and when they do, it tends to be non-fiction and biographies and hobby books (including sex and making money *)


* Okay, it didn't say anything about sex and money, that was my own notion

[Kevin2960]

We are all ODD in a NORMAL kind of way right ?

And would I want to be NORMAL even if I had the choice ???

I doubt that somehow !

Actually I don't think the OP meant to offend or stir up all this reaction, and had just worded things clumbsilly ... Have you noticed we READERS do that a lot ?

Well, It's the next day, I've read more on my Kindle, and I'm still not gay, Maybe I'm doing it WRONGLY ... !!!

Originally Posted by crich70

You're not alone Kevin, I can claim the same thing, including being odd. lol. Of course I think us odd people number in the majority since no one has as yet reached a consensus as to what is normal vs. odd so I guess we're doing ok.

[astra]

Originally Posted by hermes

And yes, I am a theta male.

What is theta male?

[Logseman]

Originally Posted by astra

What is theta male?

At the end of the room a loud speaker projected from the wall. The Director walked up to it and pressed a switch.
"… all wear green," said a soft but very distinct voice, beginning in the middle of a sentence, "and Kappa Children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Kappa children. And Lambdas are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly colour. I'm so glad I'm a Theta."
There was a pause; then the voice began again.
"Eta children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Theta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Iotas and Kappas. Iotas are stupid. They all wear green, and Kappa children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Kappa children. And Lambdas are still worse. They're too stupid to be able …"
The Director pushed back the switch. The voice was silent. Only its thin ghost continued to mutter from beneath the eighty pillows.
"They'll have that repeated forty or fifty times more before they wake; then again on Thursday, and again on Saturday. A hundred and twenty times three times a week for thirty months. After which they go on to a more advanced lesson."

[hermes]

>how little men read in comparison to women, and when they do, it tends to be non-fiction and biographies and hobby books (including sex and making money *)

No doubt the reason men might seem obsessed with sex and making money has nothing to do with we as individual men or women want. It is in the interest of the continuation of the human race that we impregnate as many women as possible (totally the opposite mating strategy of women who carefully select one male, preferably an alpha male) and bring home the bacon (or soyabeans) so that our offspring will grow up healthy and strong and do the same nonsense all over again, eh?

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Kevin2960

Well, It's the next day, I've read more on my Kindle, and I'm still not gay, Maybe I'm doing it WRONGLY ... !!!

Try reading it upside down