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Originally Posted by JDK1962
I think my major criteria for fiction book selections are story and author (add in subject for non-fiction choices). ...
My puzzlement is that many people, from their posts, seem to use price as a major/only criterion, and treat books as fungible objects, like interior decorators who buy books by the foot. And I don't get that at all. Isn't one great book worth 10 (or 20 or 50 or 100) average books? Aren't we all reading to find that book that strikes us as great?
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I think most of the complaints are about ebook prices in relation to the pbook prices.
Titles/contents aren't fungible, but the sources for them are.
e.g, I want the SKPenman trilogy. The second two ebooks in the trilogy are a crazy 19.99 each ($10 in hard and paper). I purchased the first book new at Amazon in paper, so they'd be paid, intending to go get it off the darknet
*. Of course, then I couldn't find it.
The next 2 in the trilogy, I'll just buy as used copies for a few bucks, and scan them. And curse them that I have to. I totally lost the desire to see that they're paid even a dime.
For my bonus answer: I choose 90% historical fiction, and I try to read in order - I'll read all I can about a certain decade or family line.
The other 10% is given to indulging in a bodice-ripping romance.
I still usually stick with medievals or regency, but I don't expect it to be informative or accurate. It's just a sweet desert.
*eta: at the time, it was not available for sale as an ebook. It was taken down for about 9 months, ostensibly to fix typos. It is back up now, and I would buy it at the current price of 11, if I hadn't been sucked into paying for the pbook, and if the two following weren't priced at $19.99.