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On the Media - Bookish
On the Media, a radio show/podcast I listen to, just did an episode about the book industry. On the Media is an hour long NPR show made up of smaller stories. For this episode, all the stories are book related.
Give it a listen: On the Media - Bookish Here's the episode description: Quote:
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12-30-2022, 04:19 PM | #2 |
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eBooks would have taken over if it wasn't for Apple and it's idea to try to take down Amazon.
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Obviously they never bothered to interview any of us here.
Where do they get the idea that true readers don't like ebooks? And how do they know people actually read the print books they sell? I may not read many of the ebooks I buy, but I read more than ever thanks to the many advantages they confer. Pew Research might be the only organization that does regular surveys of digital vs print usage, but it's not clear phone surveys can be trusted any more, particularly when sample size is only 1500 people. They don't say how many calls they made to get 1500 to pick up, or how they determine those people are 'representative' of the population as a whole. They're doing their best, I suppose. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...-read-e-books/ Anyway, thanks for the mention. I used to listen to OTM regularly but had to cut back on podcasts as I no longer have 10+ hours of commuting every week to consume them. Last edited by tomsem; 12-31-2022 at 02:11 AM. |
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12-31-2022, 12:50 PM | #6 |
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From what I gathered from that program is only genre readers like ebooks and I guess they are not considered serious readers since what they read are really not considered serious books.
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The phrase "serious readers" should really be retired (or at least renamed). Its use rarely seems to convey its intended meaning, and typically only angers those who get left off of the "serious" bus.
If we're talking volume, then I'd suggest "hardcore" or "heavy" readers (and conversely, "casual" or "lighter" readers). And if it's being used to talk about those who read what some might consider more highbrow or difficult, I'd suggest don't. The distinction is rarely helpful and almost never relevant. Last edited by DiapDealer; 01-03-2023 at 10:48 AM. |
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Well, you need to take 'true' out of there. That's just going to lead you down the 'no true Scotsman' road.
They are going based of book sales, paper vs. digital. Quote:
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Yup, which put me off of the whole damn program. He made genre readers sound like a bunch of bottomless pits consuming unimportant books with little value. After all they are only written by Midlist writers who turned to self-publishing their genre books since they aren't worth the all-important Big 5 publishers' time.
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It does seem like many of the readers that are purchasing multiple books a year read ebooks. I don't doubt that print is still the big seller. But when I see reports of falling ebook sales. I suspect that it's the Big 5's book sales that are falling as small publisher and indie sales rise. |
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He's locked in his ivory tower, he cannot help it.
He seems unaware that you can give ebooks as gifts, and probably has never read an entire ebook in his life. But IMO, books have never been a safe gift. It's not enough to know that someone loves to read, and who can presume to know another's preferences in reading? And just because I love a book, it's not likely that other people will have the same response. It's too personal and contingent. Curiously, on Amazon, one of his books has two listings for the Kindle edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F8K4756 <- $54.00 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006LU0HKG <- $11.99 |
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