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Originally Posted by Kris777
I know that many people don't buy books and read only classic books available for free... but it is interesting how many ebooks people buy from different websites like Amazon, B&N, Borders, eBooks.com, Fictionwise etc.
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It differs quite substantially.
Usually, when I've got a new gadget, I buy lots of add-ons the next 1 or 2 months.
For my nook, I've bought about 250 eBooks within 2 months.
For my Kindles about the same and so on.
So, as long as I buy new readers and as there still are different formats for different readers, it will be about 1 eBook per day on average.
I've bought Microsoft .lit eBooks for my Pocket PCs from 2000 to 2003.
For ePaper units, my main activities have been from summer of 2008 until now. In that time I've bought about 1.200 eBooks.
I only buy books, I don't download.
I've downloaded some books that aren't available (Harry Potter, for example) from the darknet in the beginning. I've decided against that. On average, I had to try 5 versions before I found an acceptable one. I hate it, when on my Sony reader ebooks sort by author appear under "Socke2000". And often they are protected, so I even can't change the metadata without effort.
But sometimes, the darknet version is even more professionally made, than the legally purchased ones...