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Originally Posted by Andrew Kaufman
As a Kindle owner as well as an author, I'm wondering how much you all are willing to pay for an e-book. Do you have an absolute cutoff point, or does it just depend on the author? Are you likely to buy an e-book that's priced more than a paper one?
Drew
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Given as a consumer and when I buy an ebook I am giving up the right to resale property I would otherwise own I won't pay more than $4 for any ebook. I will spend whatever it costs for my professional reference books once I get a color large format reader but that is not pure entertainment as in the case of novels.
I can even resell my old and unused software but more my ebooks. This is a factor, and a not insigificant factor many publishers and authors overlook, conveniently in many cases I am sure, but ebooks basically, as the way things go today, but ebooks destroy the used book market for paperback...it won't be soon but if I was a small used book store I would consider rolling up the sidewalk in front of the store inside the next 3-years or change the focus on the store...
Anyway, $4 is my top dollar for novels...this is reinforced but the fact I bought all my paperbacks used for anywhere from 50¢ to a couple bucks for used titles.