For every reader who decides not to buy the book, at least 2 new readers will more than make up the slack. And that's not even taking into account the numbers that likely will be generated once the HBO adaptation comes out in a year. In most everything, internet communities are outliers of opinion, which is, of course, a polite way of saying that extreme opinions bunch together in a very distorted fashion. Representative opinion unfortunately is rarely seen on the interwebs. If it were, I imagine there would be some discussion of the latest episode of Firefly or some other crap show I've never watched