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Originally Posted by whitearrow
No, I'm not participating and no, I don't think it's working. A boycott only works if you have a critical mass, and there's no sign of that.
I am also pretty price sensitive, but paying $12.99 for a new release where the hardback is $18 or $19 is something I'm occasionally willing to do. OTOH, nothing irritates me more than a backlist title that has a $6.99 paperback available and the ebook has a higher price.
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I'm sort of participating. I'm finding myself reading a lot of free public domain classics that I've never read. (Next in que is David Copperfield which I have to admit in high school I only read the cliff notes!!) I started a thread a couple of weeks ago about ebook prices higher than their paperback counter parts. That irritates me more than 12.99 or 13.99 for an ebook of a new released hardback. I have a few of the Evanonvich Stephanie Plum paperbacks I bought at walmart for like 5 bucks. I really like them and considered starting to buy them in ebook. All are 8.99 or 7.99 so I passed. I found five more of the 15 out at a garage sale for .25 cents and scarfed them up. Had the ebook been 5.99 or less I probably would have over time bought them all.
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Originally Posted by stargazertony
I have no problem with denying myself. I got ticked off at Dean Koontz once because he waited 4 years to publish the 3rd book in his Frankenstein series. Didn't buy any of his other books during that time either. That might seem like obsessive behavior to some but I don't need Dean Koontz. He's lost me. Someone finally gave me a copy of it and it's still sitting around, unread. Still haven't bought any new Koontz but have found other authors who have replaced him for me.
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I have the same problem with George RR Martin. I read the first three books of the Song of Fire and Ice series and loved every word. Then book four came out and bam what a bummer. (Lousy) Now he's been doing everything under the sun but finishing book five. Book 5 has been about 5 years in the making and still no release date. Heaven forbid he doesn't finish it before football season or we'll wait even 6 more months (read his blog). I'm through with him. I had his first 4 books in large paperback, gave them away and won't bother with book 5 at all. As far as the pending HBO series, I'll boycott that as well.