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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I went from buying about a hundred books in one year (including short stories) to 4 since april 2010.
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This is similar to my experience. The only ebooks I bought since the changeover were with my remaining ereader.com credit. I haven't spent a dime of my own money since then. Normally I spent around $150 near New Years in ebook sales and then spend my credit during a later sale, but ereader's sale scheme was destroyed so they didn't have one 2010/2011, and I didn't buy anything.
Before ebooks, probably 95% of my purchases were used books. My new books were mostly bought on sale or with coupons. When I switched over starting in 2003, discounts were all that kept me well-read. Indeed, since I cannot resell my ebooks, I normally refuse to pay as much as I would for a paper book. I'm willing to negotiate if the publisher wants to undo that very traditional first-sale doctrine, but I'm not giving it up for free. Nor do I consider DRM a gimmie. You want to tie me down, be prepared to pay for it.
Right now I'm re-reading a selection of some 18 or so books from one of my favorite authors, and I have a small backlog of unread books to go through after that. Then I have some baen free library authors to try out. I'm not exactly boycotting, I'm just using the same criteria to buy now as I did before the model went into effect. No sale, no purchase. When I start buying again, I'll certainly lean towards indies if I can find a way to sort through them effectively, and baen authors, who even without a sale per book have made the cost of a series lower by offering the first couple free and are less restrictive to wit.