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Originally Posted by foghat
I'm not waiting a out a thing.
Sure the overall ebook landscape could be better and no doubt, it will improve. In the meantime, I don't stress out about geo restrictions (especially when they are so easy to circumvent at amazon), price and the like. Even if I was completely geo restricted by Amazon, they still have enough books that I am interested in to keep me reading for years.
Seems like I am the anomaly on this, but I don't worry about paying more for an ebook than the paper version.
Don't get me wrong, I wish ebooks were always cheaper than the pbook, but if it costs me a couple of bucks extra, so what? I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
Besides, that couple dollar savings is easily offset by the convenience of not having to drive to the book store (which costs money). My time is worth something as well.
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Originally Posted by leebase
Here's my plan. If I want to read a book, and it has an ebook -- I shop around for best price. Then I buy the book.
For example, the new and long anticipated Tom Clancy novel is coming out this December. I would pay full hard back book price if I had too. I want to read the book, and I want to read it when it first comes out.
Same thing with any new Harry Potter books.
If it's a book I'm not all THAT into -- and it's expensive, or I'm low on funds. I won't buy it.
Same as I've always done with books. eBooks are no different IMHO.
Lee
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I'm in this group as well. I don't mind paying the same as a regular paper book for an ebook version. If for no other reason than the convenience of it.
As far as general pricing, I'll pay whatever I think the book is worth to me. If it is part of a series or something else I'm really looking forward to reading I'll pay more for it, to be honest though I've not found anything yet I'd pay (or have had to pay) more than $20 for. For the most part though I've manged to keep my TBR list pretty full with the freebies, discounted books, and webscriptions.
So I guess I dont have a strategy for waiting anything out, cheaper prices would be nice but at this point I can find enough to read at the prices I can accept. Since I live in the US geo restrictions are not an issue and I regularly remove the DRM from things I've purchased prior to backing them up.