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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Same here, I don't buy hardback fiction and never will.
Quite apart from the expense, a hardback is simply a less convenient version of the book. I'm not going to pay more for an inferior (to me) product.
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That's fine, and you're hardly the only one who feels that way. But enough people don't feel that way that hardcovers become bestsellers. the folks involved are generally paying a premium for faster access, and simply aren't willing to wait a year for the mass market PB to come out.
I buy hardcovers for two reasons: early access, and durable reading copies for books I want to
keep. I've been slowly replacing some old paperbacks with hardcovers, as the PBs are at the point of crumbling or falling apart, many dating from the days before acid-free paper was commonly used. (I'm especially fond of SF Book Club anthology editions, where a couple of SFBC volumes might include a paperback series that was six books in PB form. In some cases, the SFBC edition is the
only hardcover release, and the books were first publisher as MMPBs.)
I don't find them inconvenient, as I read them at home in a comfortable chair. I don't normally carry them around when I'm traveling - that's what my PDA with 4,000+ electronic volumes on an SD card is for.
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Dennis