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Originally Posted by JoeKeppler
While this may be 'another' thread about the sometimes high price of e-books, and though I might have missed many a discussion on it, I still think this is a great topic.
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It's a recurring topic, and plenty of us love new rounds of it. The commercial landscape keeps changing, so there's always new aspects to discuss.
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I'm going to reeeeeally attempt to avoid sounding like I'm shilling here, so please bear with me,
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Shilling is fine as long as you're contributing to the discussion as well! (Shilling without contributing is also fine, but we have a different forum for that.) We like authors. We like knowing about new ebooks. We like knowing what made them decide to release their works as ebooks.
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Turns out my "pirate" buddy did have some morals after all. He thought about it and hypothesized that if he saw a book on the e-marketplace that intrigued him that sat below the 5 dollar mark, he'd probably give it a chance. But that was his cutoff.
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That's about my cutoff. I've bought a tiny handful of ebooks at more than $5, mostly from Baen, but I'm at a point of realizing the only reason I'd pay more than $6 (Baen's price) for an ebook is either believing I'll really love the book and want to re-read it several times, or wanting it as a reference work.
I'll buy more-than-$5 PDFs of gaming books. I'm not likely to buy popular novels, in part because the ones I'd consider for over $6 tend to be infected with DRM. I vote with my dollars... publishers who only release DRM'd ebooks obviously aren't interested in my business; I can find something else to read instead. If I really want to read that book, I can borrow the pbook from a friend, or wait for it to show up used for a few dollars.