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View Poll Results: (Kindle owners) Are you purchasing more books from Amazon?
Yes, books that I would have purchased elsewhere I'm buying from amazon.com. 20 29.41%
Yes, I'm reading more since I bought the Kindle. 34 50.00%
Yes, but it's probably just a honeymoon thing and will drop to normal. 1 1.47%
No, about the same or I'm just indecisive. 5 7.35%
No, less because I'm reading public domain and freebies. 3 4.41%
No, but I am purchasing from other sites 4 5.88%
No (Arghh! Have you every been to sea Billy?) 1 1.47%
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Old 07-09-2008, 08:51 PM   #1
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Are you purchasing more books from Amazon?

For Kindle owners only. Have you been purchasing more books from amazon.com then you did before acquiring your Kindle?

Snappy answers to brilliant questions:
- Quantity is # of books and not $ value
- Yes I know the options aren't mutually exclusive but try to pick the closest match
- Yes I know there isn't a "blue one next to the fish" option.
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Old 07-09-2008, 08:57 PM   #2
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Yes. They make it so easy (too easy and I like it!). The prices also make me willing to explore new authors I might have passed by in paper versions.
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Old 07-09-2008, 09:15 PM   #3
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There should have been a "YES, DAMMIT!!!!" option. Today I signed up for Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazine. Damn Amazon.
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Old 07-10-2008, 01:35 AM   #4
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There should have been a "YES, DAMMIT!!!!" option. Today I signed up for Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazine. Damn Amazon.
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Old 07-10-2008, 01:50 AM   #5
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Yes, but:

* I never bought that many books from Amazon before I got the Kindle
* I buy most books from other sources (Mainly Fictionwise.com)

I would probably buy more from Amazon, but I prefer to get a more open format (read: MS Lit) so I can reformat the books for other devices in the future.

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Old 07-10-2008, 02:44 AM   #6
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I'm defiantly reading more, and all of it on my Kindle. And I have to say in Amazon's defense, MS Lit is just as closed as Amazon's AZW. It's just that Lit's DRM has been cracked and the tool widely distributed.
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Old 07-10-2008, 06:45 AM   #7
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Yes, but:

* I never bought that many books from Amazon before I got the Kindle
* I buy most books from other sources (Mainly Fictionwise.com)

I would probably buy more from Amazon, but I prefer to get a more open format (read: MS Lit) so I can reformat the books for other devices in the future.
Whoops, I meant to add an option for "No, I'm buying books from other sites." I must have blacked out while posting again. Oh well it doesn't sound like it applies to you anyway.

I was thinking that the Kindle would retain book sales for amazon.com rather then increase them significantly but the early results of the poll indicate I'm wrong again.
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Old 07-10-2008, 10:15 AM   #8
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Most things are openable, if you know how. Hypothetically, one could de-DRM anything Amazon sells except the topaz files and then have in a simple mobi format.

Hypothetically, of course.

But that is a fair issue... I still generally buy from Amazon over other options because of price and ease of use. And, quite frankly, Amazon is the only one who is selling what I'm buying more often than not.
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Old 07-10-2008, 10:56 AM   #9
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And there isn't a "The blue One, next to the Fiche" option, either.
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Old 07-10-2008, 11:26 AM   #10
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My answer is really a combination of answers one and two. I am reading more now that I have my Kindle, and I am buying books that I probably would have bought in pbook form from Borders (closest bookstore to me) in ebook form from Amazon.

I just plain love my Kindle, and everything about it.
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Old 07-10-2008, 12:20 PM   #11
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I buy most of my ebooks from Fictionwise but Amazon gets my nod if the price is significantly lower and I'm willing to take a risk on getting a Topaz file.
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Old 07-10-2008, 01:50 PM   #12
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I'm not buying *more* books from Amazon, but I'm buying more frequently. My usual buying pattern is to buy LOTS of books at one time -- maybe as many as 15 books -- and for the Kindle, I must "1-click" for each book.

So far, my credit card isn't imposing fees for the number of charges per month. But, the economy is bad and I wouldn't put it past them to do something like that in the same way that my bank years ago started charging if I wrote too many checks or visited the ATM too often. Until that happened, I never carried cash -- just wrote a check for whatever, even in small amounts. I guess with a debit card, I can revert to my "no cash" behavior.
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So far, my credit card isn't imposing fees for the number of charges per month. But, the economy is bad and I wouldn't put it past them to do something like that in the same way that my bank years ago started charging if I wrote too many checks or visited the ATM too often.
Except that the CC company usually gets paid a percentage of the purchase plus a transaction fee. So, they would rather see 2 $50 transactions than 1 $100 one. This is why fictionwise has Micropay... they are trying to limit their per transaction CC fess.

So, I doubt you will see your CC capping your transactions.

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I am both reading more (since I now have a book with me everywhere) and I'm buying more from Amazon than I did before. I used to buy mostly from a brick and mortar. Amazon got my book business when they didn't have what I wanted, I couldn't get there in time, or for my birthday and xmas because of my wishlist. Now most of my books are Kindle books through Amazon.

I'm buying fewer books overall, though, since I don't try to buy in advance as I used to. Like Elsi, I'd go book shopping and try to stock up. This resulted in a lot of waste. Since I didn't have the time to hang around the bookstore reading into the books very far, I invariably ended up with books I didn't like enough to finish. I also ended up with some books that I didn't even start. My fancy passed for them before I picked them up. Now I only buy what I want to read at the moment. I read the sample through first. I've read many samples and NOT bought the book. Before, I would have. Of course if I don't read a Kindle book through I wouldn't feel quite as bad. Yes, it would be a small waste of money, but with the physical book it's such a waste of resources, too.
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Of course if I don't read a Kindle book through I wouldn't feel quite as bad. Yes, it would be a small waste of money, but with the physical book it's such a waste of resources, too.
Need not be a waste of resources. Donate the book to a charity (your local library, even), give it away to someone who wants it, trade it for something you'd rather have, sell it to a second-hand store. I give books away and trade books. I tried selling to the second-hand store, but they wanted to pay me 25 cents per paperback and then sell them for 1/2 the original cover price. That seemed like too much margin for me, so I shop there but don't sell.

One frustration with the eBook evolution is that entire re-use, re-cycle, re-sell option disappears. Only thing left is re-read!
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