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I won't buy from them at all. Total boycott! | 71 | 16.75% | |
I won't buy from them at all and I will get their stuff from the darknets. | 90 | 21.23% | |
I won't buy from them at all and I will get their stuff through other legal means. | 22 | 5.19% | |
I won't buy at the higher price but I will wait some months for the price drop. | 131 | 30.90% | |
I'll buy books I'm eagerly anticipating at the higher price but wait for other stuff. | 56 | 13.21% | |
I'll buy whatever I feel like. The higher price doesn't matter to me. | 38 | 8.96% | |
Other. (Please explain.) | 16 | 3.77% | |
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06-28-2010, 06:54 PM | #361 |
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One problem I'm seeing with the Agency 5 ebooks is that they are pricing the ebooks at parity with the mass market paperback cover price when one is available, but B&N and Amazon are discounting the MMPB so the ebook ends up 10%-20% more expensive than the MMPB. In the old days, when they priced their books at MMPB price, I could usually find a sale somewhere (usually Fictionwise) that would drop the price down to 15% - 50% off, but not anymore. I look at it and say to myself "Do I really want this book enough to pay more than I would a real, tangible book that I could resell when I'm done with it, especially if I didn't like it?" and so far, the answer is usually "No." Between paper and ebooks I already own, and stuff in the public domain, I probably have enough unread material to last me until I die. The publishers have not provided compelling reasons for me to pay a premium for a new work, or for the hideously overpriced "Classics backlist", like the Jack Higgins books with a $15 list price and maybe discounted to $10. I'd love to replace some of my older works in my collection with ebooks, but I'm surely not going to do so when then ebook costs several times what I paid for it originally.
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06-30-2010, 12:16 AM | #363 |
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$15 is simply too rich for my blood. I've really never paid that much for books before, and can't afford to start doing that now. Too many good books in my price range to start with, anyway.
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