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It really depends on the book and how bad I want it. One time I paid over $40 on EBAY for an ARC of a book I really wanted to read and it was over a month before release date. Actually I split the cost with a friend and we played rock, paper, scissors over who got it first. I lost.
That's one thing I've always been a little shocked that Publishers haven't tried to exploit. They seem so focused on taking and and restricting (geo restrictions and drm etc) - when is somebody going to wake up to the fact that with digital publishing you can offer MORE and then charge out the wazoo for it?
Want the third book in this hot selling series 2 weeks earlier than it will be on the shelves or at Amazon? Here it is in digital form at FULL LIST PRICE available only from the Penguin website directly!
But for most books - $5 to $7. I bought the new Lisa Kleypas book this morning for $8.54 and it was a stretch for me since it isn't really full novel length. I love the author though so I paid.
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