Actually, the number of people who download each and every PG book is fairly contant and not very large. mh On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Paul Maas wrote:
Could it be that a lot of PG's books are rarely read, and the traffic seen for these books is due to people downloading the whole collection simply to have it?
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:43:42 -0700, "Jim Adcock" <jimad@msn.com> said:
I anticipate that perhaps 1% of the available titles would ever get ordered by anyone.
I think we can see that this *isn't* true from the PG catalog. Perhaps 90% of the downloads *are* concentrated in a small amount of well known books from well known authors, but the other 10% represents a "fat tail" distribution where lots of people want to read lots of different weird stuff. I do agree that I think too much time gets spent on books that don't get read much -- but that is part and parcel of the self-selection process.