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Originally Posted by Bill
I'm curious ecchi, who do you figure buys those ebook things?
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Nowadays all the accounting is done for me by a third party (A1 Adult eBooks) and I have no buyer statics other than which books sell, quantity of sales and what website makes the sales (which, thinking about it, is a bad thing). But when I started out selling eBooks I was selling them on eBay so had better feedback. Back then the majority of customers were men, however I did also get a reasonable number of women customers and a few couples. I never took any age demographics.
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Originally Posted by Bill
I think of erotica as being mainly for a female buyer.
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Yeah, but eBooks don't have to just be "erotica", they can (and mostly are) hardcore porn. Most of the books I sell are bondage. This is because I discovered way back in the 1990's that bondage sells better than "vanilla" porn, a hell of a lot better. For example, I convinced one of the authors whose bondage work I publish to do a non-bondage teen porn book. He has never forgiven me for doing so. He makes good money from the bondage stuff but feels that the time he spent writing the teen porn book would have made him more money if he had got a part time job flipping burgers for McDonald's instead!
However that said, some women do like bondage too. When I was selling via eBay I had a reasonable number of regular women customers for the bondage stuff. And the writers whose bondage work I publish include two women and a group of co-authors who include one woman in their group. Also the most sadistic person I ever knew was a woman. She was a lesbian, and way back when I was younger and more innocent she shocked me by telling me that although she preferred women-on-women porn, she was also turned on by man-on-woman porn provided the woman was being raped.