Comments on: Will women dominate the e-book market someday? http://www.teleread.com/drm/will-women-dominate-the-e-book-market-someday/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Quinn Anya Carey http://www.teleread.com/drm/will-women-dominate-the-e-book-market-someday/comment-page-1/#comment-39911 Quinn Anya Carey Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:54:30 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4061#comment-39911 I can definitely see the possibilities for sales growth for romance novels in e-book form, particularly among professional women who would be more likely to carry a PDA or other small e-book reading device around with them. Reading romance novels (particularly with that <a href="http://www.worldoflongmire.com/features/romance_novels/" rel="nofollow">legendary cover art</a>) in public where you might run into someone could be unnerving in terms of maintaining one's professional image. But unless someone's looking right over your shoulder, the text on a screen could be anything. ;) I can definitely see the possibilities for sales growth for romance novels in e-book form, particularly among professional women who would be more likely to carry a PDA or other small e-book reading device around with them. Reading romance novels (particularly with that legendary cover art) in public where you might run into someone could be unnerving in terms of maintaining one’s professional image. But unless someone’s looking right over your shoulder, the text on a screen could be anything. ;)

]]> By: Richard http://www.teleread.com/drm/will-women-dominate-the-e-book-market-someday/comment-page-1/#comment-39821 Richard Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:47:19 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4061#comment-39821 Romance novels like Harlequins are essentially "disposable" literature, which makes them perfect for the current ebook market. Who cares if you can't read them 10 years hence because the file format is dead, the drm provider is out of business, or you forget your decryption key? I thought the number of women on line had already exceeded men, but with all the ads for sites like True who would have known? In the mean time, I'll order my copy of the recently released "The Conquering Sword of Conan" and revel at how men are being ignored by the publishing world :) Romance novels like Harlequins are essentially “disposable” literature, which makes them perfect for the current ebook market. Who cares if you can’t read them 10 years hence because the file format is dead, the drm provider is out of business, or you forget your decryption key?

I thought the number of women on line had already exceeded men, but with all the ads for sites like True who would have known?

In the mean time, I’ll order my copy of the recently released “The Conquering Sword of Conan” and revel at how men are being ignored by the publishing world :)

]]> By: dan visel http://www.teleread.com/drm/will-women-dominate-the-e-book-market-someday/comment-page-1/#comment-39818 dan visel Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:17:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4061#comment-39818 I noticed Harlequin's rather extensive electronic projects a while back - see http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2005/01/from_the_nouvea.html . Romances do seem to be an inordinate part of the ebook market right now, if you look at sales - readers tend to go through a lot of 'em quickly. Harlequin's noticed this. I noticed Harlequin’s rather extensive electronic projects a while back – see http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2005/01/from_the_nouvea.html . Romances do seem to be an inordinate part of the ebook market right now, if you look at sales – readers tend to go through a lot of ‘em quickly. Harlequin’s noticed this.

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