"It used to be that once a year was a big deal."

"You could saturate the market. But today the culture is a great big hungry maw, and you have to feed it."

Writing books in a time of ebooks. 

I think ebooks stimulate more impulse buying. The instant acquisition is so satisfying. The article is about fiction writers, specifically the genre-writers in mystery, thrillers, and romance, where readers consume favorite-author product voraciously.

I mostly buy nonfiction, but I have hundreds of unread and partially read books in my iPad. It would be annoying and slightly guilt-inducing to have the book-objects piled up around the house (along with all the other books whose ability inspire guilt faded long ago).

I'm not the best test of whether ebooks lead to overbuying, because I buy many books for the direct purpose of doing word searches and cutting and pasting quotes for this blog.

What about you? Is the ebook format causing you to buy/read way too much/too impulsively?

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