Wow, Piper_, that pricing is just nuts. I checked it and can't believe Penguin is in this too. I remember Penguin from my younger years as an inexpensive imprint with very good titles in the genres I enjoy. Sad to see where they are today. But nearly 100% more for the ebook version is basically saying they don't want to sell to anyone with even just half-a-wit. Perfect example of Agency pricing gone horribly wrong.
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Originally Posted by Piper_
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. |