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Originally Posted by JDK1962
On this and other forums, I've read a number of posts about boycotting books above a certain price level, or books by the six major publishing houses that are doing agency pricing.
My question: does anyone buy books with price as the ONLY criterion?
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Bonus points: what criteria do you apply that you believe helps you find great reading material?
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Nobody buys books with price as the only criterion. (Nobody's that wealthy... "I buy everything under $4" is ridiculous.) Many people refrain from buying books with price as the only criterion--regardless of how well they like the author or believe they'd enjoy/use this book, if it's over a certain price, they won't buy it.
My current cap is $6 for fiction novels, but that's flexible; if a work comes out by an author I like very much, I'd be willing to pay more. How much more, I'm not sure.
My absolute blocker is DRM--if it's got DRM, I'm not buying at any price. (Any. I don't download free books with DRM.) This is a matter of principle--I think DRM is broken; I won't be put in a position of maybe committing crimes to get access to my purchases; I believe I won't run out of non-DRM'd reading material.
I've barely touched the selection at drivethrurpg and e23, Smashwords is always growing, Baen still has things on my to-be-read list, and if I read nothing but
Yuletide fanfic for the rest of the year, I wouldn't be caught up by the time this year's Yuletide comes around.
For finding good reading material, I read recommendations on Dreamwidth and here at MR, and spend some time clicking around at random at Smashwords and Fictionwise. This is horribly inefficient... and when I run out of stuff to read, I'll consider new methods.