Skewing the whole topic of e-books is the general assumption that everyone’s reading habits are the same.

It’s true that commercial genre fiction sells more than literary fiction. In looking over my bookshelf, there are some books I cherish because I value the author and really just want to have the book. Other books I enjoy reading (or didn’t like as much as I thought) and end up mostly selling those to used bookstores. It’s the latter type of book that I would end up likely to buy if I had an e-book reading device.

So, here’s a short list of the type of books I would likely never buy in print if I had a Kindle (or the Sony reader, etc.):

You may notice some type of theme here …. mystery/detective fiction, non-fiction about current events (especially politics or functioning of the U.S. government). On a related note, I would never buy any of those books in hardcover either, preferring mostly to wait a year until the paperback came out.

Tomorrow, a post about books I would always buy in print even if I had a Kindle.