I have certain authors I almost buy automatically even if they belong to the big 5 (or 6, or how many they are
).
Now I said "almost" because there's a recent book coming out from one of those authors, whose price is over $17. And I have to admit, it gave me pause, no matter how much I want to read the book, or the fact that I have read all the other bazillion books in the series or that this one seems to be the series' conclusion. I can't get my mind round one word: rip-off!
I will grudgingly shell out around $13.79 or something for an ebook by my favourite authors but $17 is just too dang much.
And even though I get few freebies where I am from, I don't download them indiscriminately just because they cost $0.00 or $0.99, so that price selection criterion does not apply much either.