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I… would not say that having an e-reader has saved me money, for this year thus far I have spent:
$345.74 USD @ Fictionwise
$148 USD @ Baen
$104.45 CAD + $1.09 USD @ Kobo
$72.50 USD @ Amazon
$50.76 USD @ Phoenix Pick
$25.55 USD @ (direct from author)
$20.96 USD @ Smashwords
$7.92 USD @ Ellora's Cave
$7.25 USD @ Sony
$2.99 USD @ B&N
$1.11 USD @ Carina Press
Mind you, I'm not going to pretend that I wouldn't have spent that money on books anyway. But yeah, savings*, no.
* And the "oh, but I saved money buying the e-book edition vs the hardcover!" doesn't apply, since I rarely buy fiction hardcovers and most of what I do paper-buy is not available in e-format anyway. And I paid roughly used-bookstore-on-sale equivalent prices for many of my sometimes-still-available-in-the-library mostly-out-of-print backlist purchases, so no extra monetary savings there, either.
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