I was just going through my Baen account, contemplating my next purchase or more specificity "window shopping" to see what would catch my eye and noticed the listing of all my purchases from Baen and was surprised to see the amount I had ordered $ wise....$390 just for e-books. WOW, now I still buy hard backs and paper backs but I was still surprised I had spent so much on E-books.

Manxome Foe
Selina Rosen Collection
Queen of Denial
Recycled
Chains of Freedom
Chains of Destruction
Strange Robby
Vorpal Blade
The Guns of Two-Space
One Day on Mars
Dead Easy
Yellow Eyes
1634: The Baltic War
The Dance of Time
A Deeper Blue-ARC
Paladins II: Knight Moves
Unto the Breach
Boundary
Thraxas Under Siege
Conqueror
Darkness and Dawn
Empire From the Ashes
The Genesis Machine
Here There Be Dragonnes
The Isle Beyond Time
Lady Slings the Booze
There Will be Dragons
A Civil Campaign
Komarr
Diplomatic Immunity
Ring of Fire
The Road to Damascus
The Guardians of the Flame
Soldiers
Alternate Generals II
The City and the Ship
Eternal Frontier
In Enemy Hands
Kren of the Mitchegai
The Road to Damascus
Seas of Venus
1634: The Galileo Affair
Emerald Sea
The Amazing Dr. Darwin

The Cobra Trilogy
The Cold Equations
Death and Thraxas
Interstellar Patrol
Paladins
The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly
Berserker Man
Cally's War
Disappearing Act
Legions of Space
Mountain Magic
Siege Perilous
Conrad Stargard: The Radiant Warrior
The Far Side of the Stars
Insurrection
Tinker
Very Bad Deaths
Warp Speed
Against the Tide
Berserker Death
Cosmic Tales: Adventures in Far Futures
Forge of the Titans
Moonstruck
This Scepter'd Isle
Conrad's Time Machine
The Course of Empire
E. Godz
Ill Met by Moonlight
Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation of Humanity
Lord of the Isles
Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War
The Prometheus Project
We Few
Alternate Generals III
The Creatures of Man
Crown of Slaves
Dark Companion
The Quantum Connection
The Return of Nathan Brazil
Gods and Androids
Into the Looking Glass
A Logic Named Joe
This Rough Magic
Thraxas and the Sorcerers
The Time of Troubles I
Ghost
Ghost - ARC
Watch on the Rhine
Blackcollar
Blood of the Heroes
Masters of Fantasy
90 Trillion Fausts
Princess of Wands
The Two-Space War
The Wizard of Karres
Kildar
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Thraxas at War
1634: The Ram Rebellion
The Tide of Victory
Blackcollar: The Judas Solution
Choosers of the Slain
Von Neumann's War

Of course this is only the ones I purchase and not the free downloads they provide. (And some of these are now Free but were formally a purchase item)


Lots of good reading in there.

Not sure of the point of the post other than to wonder if anyone else keeps up with their expenditures E VS. Written?

Webscriptions tells me that I've spent the rather scary total of US$1596 there. I've bought every "Webscription" package since they opened for business, plus most of the "bundles", too :).

I've been buying books from ereader.com for quite a while, and reading them on my Palm. I've racked up over $1000 there.... :) :bookworm:

Ya'll have me beat by a mile. And I consider myself a very avid and rapid reader, of course the library gets a lot of my trade..........

Can't beat Harry but my Baen total is $426. That plus about $300 at Fictionwise and maybe another $200 other places Plus pbooks and library. All since about 2000.

I currently have more "unread" books than ever before.

Well I've only been buying ebooks since November 07 so I'm sure many of you have spent a lot more, but I just added mine up & it's kinda frightening...

Fictionwise $1,011.04
Books On Board $133.82
Baen $55.00
Simonsays $27.65
ebooks.com $16.98

...of course my dead tree expenditures have been almost nil since I started buying ebooks.

I think I've spent $7 or $8 at Sony's store too.

Well I've only been buying ebooks since November 07 so I'm sure many of you have spent a lot more, but I just added mine up & it's kinda frightening...

Fictionwise $1,011.04
Books On Board $133.82
Baen $55.00
Simonsays $27.65
ebooks.com $16.98

...of course my dead tree expenditures have been almost nil since I started buying ebooks.

I think I've spent $7 or $8 at Sony's store too.

Is that right, you've spend almost $1500 on books in 6 months? That's about $250 a month on books.

BOb

Wow... I just checked my expenditures. Since getting my Cybook in January, I've spent $664.42 at BooksOnBoard (not even counting the $163.32 I've gotten and spent in Rewards dollars). At least it's on books and not crack...

Is that right, you've spend almost $1500 on books in 6 months? That's about $250 a month on books.

BOb

That's right

At least it's on books and not crack...
not that it's any less addictive... :rolleyes:

But it's healthier and higher in fiber!

But it's healthier and higher in fiber!
hmm, you might be doing it wrong... :inquisiti:

You recycle your way, and I'll recycle mine.

:p (where's the smiley crinkling up its nose ??)

(it's on the list of smilies we need to add) :D

Ya'll have me beat by a mile. And I consider myself a very avid and rapid reader, of course the library gets a lot of my trade..........

I should perhaps point out that I've probably read something like a quarter of the books I've bought from Baen. The main reason I buy "Webscriptions" every month is to show my whole-hearted support for the "good guys" of the publishing industry. I buy them whether or not I have any intention of ever reading them :).

I'm in complete denial and refuse to total up my purchases. (Fingers in ears) La-la-la-la-la....

I understand about supporting Baen, they have been my favorite E-Book supplier since they first started as well as the most fan friendly IMHO. Both Jim Baen and Eric Flint never hesitated to reply to e-mails in the early days, Eric may still do so but I have had no reason to write him lately. So I support when possible. The only issue I have with the Webscriptions is that they have a tendency to package books I already have with the new releases, so I tend to be more of a single book buyer now. However I do have a tendency, as well, to buy the ARC (Advance reader copies) releases of my favorite authors even if they are usually at least $15 or more...But I would rather give them my $$$$ than any of the other online book retailers....in my mind loyalty to the fans begets loyalty from the fans.......but I am an old fart so draw your own conclusions.

I'm in complete denial and refuse to total up my purchases. (Fingers in ears) La-la-la-la-la....I like your attitude.

La-la-la-la-la....

The only issue I have with the Webscriptions is that they have a tendency to package books I already have with the new releases,

You get all that month's releases - both newly-published books and reprints. It's generally 2 or 3 new books, and anywhere between about 2 and 5 reprints. In effect the reprints are "free" - it's the new stuff you're paying for.

If, as I do, you buy all the Webscriptions you can easily see what's new and what's a reprint - anything you've bought already has a check mark alongside it in the store, so you can very easily see which are the new books.

Yeah Harry I understand that. But,as is frequently the case, there may only be one or two books I don't have in the monthly Webscriptons, and all the rest are redundant to my library list, or to be honest may be authors I just can't get into. So I hunt through the latest offerings and pick what I know I will read.
Still I feel I am giving them enough of my hard earned money almost every month, thank goodness my favorite authors can only release one or two books a year or I would be up past your cash outlay lol.:2thumbsup

I understand your viewpoint completely.

One nice thing about the "random" nature of the Webscription package is that I've discovered all sorts of authors (Elizabeth Moon, for example) that I'd have never bought in any other way, since their names would have been unknown to me.

:thumbsup:Valid point.
I discovered two new authors that I love last year by happenstance (Jim Butcher and Simon Green), though not on Baen, so some "adventure" in reading is always welcome.

I'm with Harry on the subject of Baen. I own all the WebScriptions that are up in full (since the very beginning), along with many of the bundles. I've drawn the line at eARCs though -- my budget just won't stretch that far.

If you're concerned about duplicates in the Webscriptions bundles, remember that each month includes at least four books never before in bits. If there are too many paperback re-issues of stuff that was already in Webscriptions when published in hardcover, they digitize something pre-2000 and use it to fill out that never-before-in-bits number.

I've come to value the Webscriptions bundles for getting me to try books that I would not have purchased on their own. A few discoveries made that way include Eric Flint, Ryk Spoor, John Ringo... And they are the class act of the eBook industry, so I really want to encourage them.

Xenophon

Xenophon, add Travis Taylor to the list that you mentioned and you have the core of my hardcore Military SF named and identified. Taylor and Ringo when they collaborate simply suck money out of my account .....well you know what I mean.:thumbsup:

Xenophon, add Travis Taylor to the list that you mentioned and you have the core of my hardcore Military SF named and identified. Taylor and Ringo when they collaborate simply suck money out of my account .....well you know what I mean.:thumbsup:

I find the ultra-right-wing political views displayed by these gentlemen disturbing, I have to admit. Not my scene at all.

Right up my alley:D

Right up my alley:D

I concur. I just wish Baen would expand their author set exponentially. Several, like Elizabeth Moon, don't have enough representation and some of my other "new" favorite authors, Darrell Bain & Ed Howdershelt, are not represented at all.

Also many authors are still not in ebooks, Jean Auel for instance.

I find the ultra-right-wing political views displayed by these gentlemen disturbing, I have to admit. Not my scene at all.I haven't read any Taylor, so I can't comment on him, but Ringo actually varies pretty wildly on that score. Yes some of his books are so right, that I'm surprised nobody's hung the moniker "Ron Jingo" on him, but most of them are much less so, and a few lean the other direction. Princess of Wands (http://webscriptions.net/p-323-princess-of-wands.aspx), for example, is actually a bit lefty-loosey (I don't use that description to be demeaning, it's just that it fits the story -- you'll know what I mean if you read it). :shrug: I found it a very good read, though, not high literature, by any stretch, but it was fun.

It was Mr. Taylor that I was referring to specifically. I find most of Mr. Ringo's work much more palatable, with the exception of certain books of his that you're well aware of my views of, and which I won't repeat again :).

Fair enough. :nice:

Incidentally, I looked back, and I have read a few of his books. The collaborations with Ringo on the "Looking Glass" series are mostly fine (yeah, there are a few moments, but a lot of those depend on the reader's interpretation of events that aren't clearly stated). I've also read Von Neumann's War (http://webscriptions.net/p-449-von-neumanns-war.aspx), which was fairly good, and I don't remember being any more "right" (politically) than most of Jon Ringo's offerings.

Beyond that I wouldn't care to venture a comment, except that there are several books of his that I've rejected reading based on the cover blurbs. :shrug:

except that there are several books of his that I've rejected reading based on the cover blurbs. :shrug:

You were wise to do so, unless you happen to be a fan of extremely nasty and explicit sadomasochistic sex scenes, which personally I am not.

You were wise to do so, unless you happen to be a fan of extremely nasty and explicit sadomasochistic sex scenes, which personally I am not.Not so much, no. :undecided

This was an interesting topic. I didn't even realize that you could see a list of everything you'd bought from Baen. Now I wish I hadn't

$1020 OMG. I knew it was a lot, but not that much. Plus I get the Universe, and I paid extra to help it get started. And I just found the web site for the Gettyburg Gazette, and yes I did throw down some more money.

This doesn't include other e-books that I've bought. Nowhere near that much though.

1.20$ at mobipocket (http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=34359), beat that!
Freebies and PG(and of course MR) are just way too time consuming, especially if university likes to be visited from time to time :needvac:

1.20$ at mobipocket (http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=34359), beat that!
Freebies and PG(and of course MR) are just way too time consuming, especially if university likes to be visited from time to time :needvac:

That looks like an interesting (and oh, so unexpensive!) title, how did you like it ?

I have been buying e-books since 1998 (or so): Started with a Palm Pilot, then Handspring (Visor Deluxe and Visor Pro), then Palm Tungsten E and E2. Now I use my beloved eBookwise, and am waiting for the Astak machines before I purchase an e-ink machine.

Best estimate: 200 books and lots of short stories. Thank goodness for the local library - I'm a compulsive reader, and can't afford my habit otherwise...

Sherri