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Old 03-09-2012, 02:20 AM   #46
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Personally, yes. I don't believe that ebooks are overpriced, and I don't give a damn about DRM.
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Old 03-09-2012, 02:52 AM   #47
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Personally, yes. I don't believe that ebooks are overpriced, and I don't give a damn about DRM.
i think that high prices would bother me more if agency novels were the only game in town like they pretty much were before ebooks. i'm not held hostage to reading only x,y or z, theres a million other books out there. and i'm not opposed to simply waiting for an $8 paperback version.
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Old 03-09-2012, 03:05 AM   #48
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i think that high prices would bother me more if agency novels were the only game in town like they pretty much were before ebooks. i'm not held hostage to reading only x,y or z, theres a million other books out there. and i'm not opposed to simply waiting for an $8 paperback version.
I'm generally paying £4-5 for the eBooks that I buy. The standard price of a paperback in the UK is £7.99, so I consider this (half the price of the paperback, or a little more) to be entirely reasonable.

The only situation in which eBooks tend to cost significantly more is when a book is newly released, and has only be released in hardback. In that situation, I'll always wait for the paperback release, at which time the eBook price will fall. I have such a long TBR list that waiting 6 months or a year is no hardship.
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Old 03-09-2012, 04:02 AM   #49
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Completely understandable, however, if the 'boycott' or whatever you choose to call it was for the high prices on e-books or DRM for that matter, would you have the same opinion?
I wouldn't buy a book that I think is too highly priced. No matter if it's made of paper, plastic, stone, leather, bits, etc.

And I'll buy DRM'd books without problem, as long as I think the price is right. DRM is a non-issue.
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You and I feel the same way about DRM and ebook prices. However $12.50 for a paperback (conversions provided by xe.com) thats' a lot. I have set a limit on the prices that I will pay for the ebooks that I buy at 2.22 pounds far below the market prices. Why becuase I can get that price, and if I can get my price why would I ever want to pay more? At the moment I am going through a book series that I can get msot of the books for zero so for now I refuse to pay anything for the books and instead require a price tag of 0 pounds or $0.
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