Erotic Ebooks – Ahead of the Curve

Erotic Ebooks – Ahead of the Curve

It’s become a common joke among people who have grown up in the digital age:

‘Where are the flying cars?’

Fifty years ago, science fiction writers and journalists predicted a world where, possibly by the year 2000, we’d be zipping around the skies in our bubble shaped, Jetson-style air cars.

Of course, that hasn’t come to pass any more than teleportation, food replicators or robot butlers.

One thing that has come to pass, however, is the digital book.

We’ve had the technology to replace – or supplement – printed books with digital ones for some time, but for a myriad of reasons, very few people are overly eager to make the switch. It’s not for lack of trying; each year, it seems another company hits the market with the ‘next big’ digital book reader, only to find a market that’s only lukewarm to the idea.

However, there is one genre – erotic ebooks – where the market not only will accept the digital delivery of the literature, but may even prefer to get their books in bits and bytes.

Consider the current state of book buying, and it isn’t even common for erotic books, regardless of literary intent, to be found in many small book stores. Add in the fact that large book stores rely heavily now on appearing to stock a wide assortment of all kinds of books, but in reality make a hug chunk of sales from a small amount of titles.

However, with the book buyer looking for erotic stories, the online shopping experience offers privacy, selection and immediate delivery. There’s no waiting in the checkout line, no perusing the titles in public and much wider choice.

While many readers cite the fact that they would rather have a physical book, erotic books aren’t usually stored on shelves in the main parlor of a house, and the driving force of purchase is the content, not the cover or the latest fad. It seems that digital delivery of the latest political autobiography might never be as easy a connection as erotic books.

Newspapers aroung the world are working to cope with a new reality, in which people want to get their news digitally, but not, apparently, in the traditional newspaper format. It’s a learning curve that has thrown them for a loop. Traditional book publishers, for the most part. see e-books as something not quite mature enough to really leverage.

So, while digital books and newspapers struggle to find mainstream use, the erotica genre has found it’s groove…so to speak.

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