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For the makers of e-book readers, the raincoater audience — the straightish men who frequent adult bookstores for the promise of a little action in the back — are an unlikely market. They're not even there to read, for starters. But for literate smut fans, who have been choosing Amazon.com from the first day they made erotic books available in discreet, brown-wrapped boxes? If they're turning to the Kindle to deliver their porn, Amazon's not telling. Not entirely. We've got numbers on how well the same books sell in print, but not for their Kindle counterparts. Better figures might be possible if everyone's who's spindled their Kindle dropped Amazon a line.
Amazon.com can't tell who's getting off on the Kindle
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12:00 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
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"Straightish?"
More telling: the #3 bestselling Kindle book at the moment [www.amazon.com] ranks as #3,264 as a paperback [www.amazon.com] and is Star Wars fan service.
Lends credence to the theory that Kindle is a niche device only owned by techies with disposable income.
And techies apparently like their scifi more than their porn. (Do you have a Leia slave bikini? Could help business.)
Being conspiratorial and suggesting that Amazon is surpressing porn is fun and all, but since your example ranks #18,735 as a paperback maybe it hasn't achieved enough Kindle sales to merit a rank. Maybe?
Is this similar to the "raincoaster" audience?
Sadly, my books are also not in the Kindle store (yet). But I can recommend Five Minute Erotica for those looking for a fast, hot read.
@matto: Appreciate the namedrop my friend, but the link is raincoaster.com. The Dentonsphere doesn't need the hits.
@raincoaster: Besides, I think that avatar of the raincoaster consciousness was banned three years ago. I'm on life #6 now!
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