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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Ding! Ding! Ding! Give that man a cigar....
I buy boatloads of used books. My favorite bookstore places used books next to new books on the bookshelf. I *always* buy the used book. No income for either publisher or author. My gain, their loss. If I could get the ebook at the same or equivalent price as the used, I would buy the ebook.
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Same here. (and let's not even get into what happened when my favorite SF specialist store had an anniversary sale, with all used paperbacks 50 cents...except that I was there when the doors opened, and I brought my own box) I happily pay two or three dollars for a used pbook. I'd much rather buy an ebook. The pbook collection has become a threat to the floor joists.
That's what the publishers don't get. I keep bringing up the example of laserdiscs versus DVDs. Laserdiscs were, market-wise, a flop; DVD sales can surpass box-office revenue, even when they're sold dirt cheap. Seriously, you can buy a whole movie that cost many millions of dollars to make cheaper than you can buy a lot of ebooks (including, quite possibly, the one the movie was based on). If a publisher can't make a profit selling something that cost a few thousand dollars to produce for a fraction of the price of something that not only cost millions of dollars to produce, but has to be made into DVDs, packed into boxes, and shipped to stores, then they're doing it wrong.
A $2 or $3 ebook is an impulse buy. As one look at my Smashwords account tells me, I'm impulsive.