Comments on: Sea change in e-book market? Romance beating science fiction at Fictionwise

By: Marion Gropen

Marion Gropen — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:13:02 +0000

I’d say that it MIGHT mean that women are finally adopting ebooks. And this could be a very significant development. After all, women buy more books than men do, by a fair margin.

NB: Women avoiding science fiction may not be because women aren’t interested in science and speculative fiction. It might be because most science fiction has a notable lack of female characters. After all, romance that leans toward science fiction in tone and setting is a thriving sub-genre.

By: Liviu

Liviu — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:51:58 +0000

Since in the p-book universe romance outsells sf by a large margin I guess that e-bookdom is starting to become closer p-bookdom demographically and taste-wise. The reason given above in the post makes sense and it probably answers the question.

By: Brian Carnell

Brian Carnell — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:12:38 +0000

“So, gang, what do you think are the reasons for romance beating out SF?”

I used to buy SciFi ebooks at fictionwise. These days there is far more high quality scifi on the Internet for *free* that I don’t have time enough to read it all. In fact, these days, I get all my scifi reading fic from Futurismic’s Friday Free Fiction post like this: http://futurismic.com/2008/05/02/friday-free-fiction-for-2nd-may/