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(18,458 posts) Fri May 25, 2012, 10:13 AM May 2012

Publishing: Rude bits in disguise

According to new research by discount website MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, people have been buying e-readers to disguise the embarrassing books they're reading. The poll of 1,863 e-reader owners found that 58 per cent had acquired the device partly so as to disguise their taste in erotic and/or children's fiction.

E-book sales have skyrocketed thanks, in large part, to genre fiction: horror, crime, sci-fi and so on. Half of all erotic fiction sold is in e-book format, compared with just 20 per cent of general fiction. Romance publisher Mills & Boon releases around 100 digital titles a month, but just 55 physical titles....

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/publishing-rude-bits-in-disguise-7786191.html

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E-Readers are to books as the Internet is to porn? Why am I not surprised!

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Publishing: Rude bits in disguise (Original Post) Fearless May 2012 OP
Yep, seems obvious really, a new fountain of digital porn. bemildred May 2012 #1
Delete the slash at the end for the link to work. DavidDvorkin May 2012 #2
Good catch... and odd because I didn't put it there but copied and pasted! n/t Fearless May 2012 #3
That's weird. DavidDvorkin May 2012 #4
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