And on the same topic of electronic sales, a great survey. Worth looking at on how eReaders and Tablets are growing in households.
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/E-readers-and-tablets/Report.aspx
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Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than one hundred popular novels and well over two hundred published short stories. His novels include the science fiction novel Laying the Music to Rest and the thriller The Hunted as D.W. Smith. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He writes under many pen names and has also ghosted for a number of top bestselling writers.
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Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. He is now an executive editor for Fiction River.
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I think the thing to remember is that our gateway drug is the smart phone and other handheld devices. People buy slightly larger devices for hardcore uses they already know they want.
Most of the Kindle owners I know started out saying “I’d never use a thing like that!” They started reading on their iPhones because there was some book they couldn’t get any other way, and then got hooked.
I think that’s a big part of the snowball that’s rolling fast. We already have really big market penetration of the _capability_ of reading ebooks.
I think another factor is that ereaders have been coming down in price. I got my nook in January for ~ 150 (with tax a case etc). Kindle has been coming down too.
Ipads and the like are pretty pricey still. In the economic climate we find ourselves in, a lot of people don;t have $300 burning a hole in their pockets…
This is great news. These people are going to want to fill those devices with stories; that’s the whole point. Time to get busy.