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No, if the paper edition is less, I'll buy the paper edition. It's all about the content. | 26 | 14.86% | |
No, if the paper editon is less, I won't buy the book on prinicple. Ebooks should cost less. | 65 | 37.14% | |
Yes, I want an ebook because I want what the ebook format offers me. Paper price is irrelevent. | 66 | 37.71% | |
Other, please explain. | 18 | 10.29% | |
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05-08-2013, 11:13 AM | #16 | |
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Yes, that's what I meant. It doesn't sound like you object to ebooks costing as much as a hardcover per se, you just choose the hard cover price as a conveniently available self-check, like my ebay limits or (perhaps) ucfgrad93's $10 figure, yes?
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05-08-2013, 11:45 AM | #18 |
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My impulse buy limit is around $6 - below that, I'm willing to take a chance on a new author, new genre, something I haven't tried before. If it's an author I follow and really like and want to support, I'll go up to around $10 - no hard and fast rule, just that's about my threshold.
I resent paying more than $10 for something I only license, don't own. there are a couple of authors that I collect, and will buy in hardback (I'm looking at Lois Bujold here). There's one author I used to collect in both paper and audio, but his new publisher has really jacked up the prices for ever slimmer volumes so high that I'm only getting them in audio these days (I really like the way that they're narrated - to me, on these books, the narrator is so perfectly matched to the "voice" of the book that they're inseparable to me.) |
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Totally agree. I have no interest in what the paperbook costs because I don't want to buy that, I want the ebook version. How much I will pay for a book depends on the book in question and what I think it's worth not what format it is in. I don't have a set price limit for buying a book, it varies.
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Both prices being equal, I would buy the pbook. I actually prefer pbooks. And yet I read mostly ebooks, because I prefer library ebooks over going to the library (and racking up late fees), and I have a back log of free and cheap ebooks. I could count on one hand the number of ebooks I have bought for over $6.
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As Harry says, it depends on the book as to how much I am willing to pay. I have always spent a lot of money on books. My wife always tells people who ask that at least it isn't drugs, cigarettes or women.
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Voted for yes.
The only reason I might go for the cheaper pbook would be a book where the sample couldn't convince me but that came highly recommended. If I could grab such a book for about 1 € as a pbook I might still give it a try instead of completely passing it by. |
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05-08-2013, 07:30 PM | #25 |
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Probably the only reason I would by a fiction pbook is if there were no fiction ebooks od. For many years I was thrilled with a new pbook, but not anymore. Nothing wrong with them just that I vastly prefer ebooks.
They don't have to have special features, special fonts etc. Availabilty is a big thin, instant gratification ummm Convenience features of even the most basic readers, such as book marking a book so you can switch to another and go back without worrying about someone tidying the other book away because you could not possibly be reading two. Price can be a deciding factor, but not between eversions and paper versions, because I do not want paper versions no matter how cheap they are. I don't dislike them, I just vastly prefer ebooks. Kind of like going back to a black and white tube TV or a TRS-80 computer with a tape deck for storage. Magic at the time but... If there are 10 books I really want, and I am sure there are thousands, and some are noticably cheaper, I will buy in the lower price range. Same as I ill buy chuck steak at $2 a lb instead of Kobe beef at $40 a lb. or a $14 bottle of wine instead of a $200 bottle of wine. It is about what I can afford and how much I want it. I would no more think of telling a publisher how much to charge for a book, then I would tell a grocer how much to charge for a steak, or a car manufacturer how much to charge for a car. If I can pay the price doesn't mean I will and sometimes I do without other things to buy something I really cannot afford but have just got to have. Luckily with ebooks there are so many choices. You can buy them, borrow from the library, or read public domain. And as near as I can tell the selling price is determined by demand. Not supply and demand as in Kobe beef, but by how many people want to read a certain book right now which is pretty much the way it has been with paper books in the last 30-40 years. If demand is high they print more, if it is low they sell the remaining stock cheaply. The publishers and authors want to make money, but then so do I. perhaps by asking a higher price they are depriving me of the price of a cappucino or a cheese burger but there is no force or coercion involved. I either pay the price or I don't, no painful comparisons to other formats are necessary. Helen |
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oh, I know, and I know it's illogical, but I do find that I rarely buy an ebook for more than $6 or $7 - it has to be something special for me to go over that amount.
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The misapplied, inappropriate comparison.
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They are different things with radically different physical properties, so why would you expect them both to have the exact same use properties? If one wants the properties and rules of a physical item, one should buy the physical item. One should not buy a different thing then expect it to have the properties of something else. Quote:
You do, however, get a whole bunch of DIFFERENT benefits that pbooks can't possibly have. THOSE are the things you should be considering when you decide how much to pay for it. Aside from the value of the content itself, of course, which I agree is comparable in either format. Similarly, when choosing a pbook over an book, you might want to consider the it's properties, like the money you may get back in future resale, when considering if it's price is worth it. You wouldn't say "I'm losing the ability to carry this weightlessly along with thousands of others in my pocket, and get instant online delivery, so I should be paying less for this pbook" would you? Last edited by ApK; 05-08-2013 at 08:36 PM. |
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I didn't say I expected those rights, I said that I wouldn't want to pay the same amount for something that was missing them.
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