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SeaKing · 12-13-2011, 02:10 PM

I am finding a lot of people in denial. I don't know if they have stuck their heads under their "reading" pillow or not.

Let me explain.

I gave a list of prices for paper books (new and used).
The new set of 7, I gave has a price of slightly over $6 on average for each book, and that is delivered without tax from Amazon.
Most used books were about $4 and those that were higher will get lower. That is the way the used market works. Of course if you frequent book fairs, and close outs like I used to do a lot, and on occasion still do, you will one day some years from now find them for $1.00.

I am not sure how many people argued that my statement 'that the above prices were cheaper than any ebook of Harry Potter that would come out' was patently(my word) incorrect because, simply put, there weren't any official ebooks yet. I consider that a very weak argument.

One perceptive gentleman said that the ebooks would go for no less than $7.99, and I say even if we knock a dollar off for a special $6.99 price, they are projected by those that watch ebooks and paper books, used or new, to be higher than the paper books. History shows that.

Now someone might say that Amazon gives free ebooks away. Many people own a Kindle for no other reason. I grant that. Still I doubt whether that will occur for Harry Potter any time in the next 10 or 15 years, after the ebooks come out.

Now I grant that there are people here and we have heard from some of them, that only will read their hard copy once and then put it with other cherished keepsakes, Beanie Babies, and other collectibles on a glassed in lighted shelf, (perhaps humidity controlled) somewhere, and will have a paper back to reread from time to time, and then will eagerly purchase an ebook as well for ease in transporting and having all the HP books plus books about the HP books together, but that is the collector, the fan, the true believer. I know they exist. I too have some collectibles. Two of them require a hanger.

BUT I read fiction books usually once. I admit I used to pack them away on shelves, sometimes just planks on brick columns, back in the day when the Navy moved me for free. But I have been culling ever since my commander called me in one day, and said "enough is enough, the service can't afford to haul your bricks one more time, so get rid of the bricks."

Wake up folks. Wake up. Pay whatever you want for that special edition, that autographed copy, but don't be in denial about the way the pricing works.

12-13-2011, 02:10 PM	#110
SeaKing Frequent Flier Posts: 1,282 Karma: 2058993297 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: KB kindle aboard, Galx Tab 7.0 Plus, trying out Droid 1 as mini-tab	I am finding a lot of people in denial. I don't know if they have stuck their heads under their "reading" pillow or not. Let me explain. I gave a list of prices for paper books (new and used). The new set of 7, I gave has a price of slightly over $6 on average for each book, and that is delivered without tax from Amazon. Most used books were about $4 and those that were higher will get lower. That is the way the used market works. Of course if you frequent book fairs, and close outs like I used to do a lot, and on occasion still do, you will one day some years from now find them for $1.00. I am not sure how many people argued that my statement 'that the above prices were cheaper than any ebook of Harry Potter that would come out' was patently(my word) incorrect because, simply put, there weren't any official ebooks yet. I consider that a very weak argument. One perceptive gentleman said that the ebooks would go for no less than $7.99, and I say even if we knock a dollar off for a special $6.99 price, they are projected by those that watch ebooks and paper books, used or new, to be higher than the paper books. History shows that. Now someone might say that Amazon gives free ebooks away. Many people own a Kindle for no other reason. I grant that. Still I doubt whether that will occur for Harry Potter any time in the next 10 or 15 years, after the ebooks come out. Now I grant that there are people here and we have heard from some of them, that only will read their hard copy once and then put it with other cherished keepsakes, Beanie Babies, and other collectibles on a glassed in lighted shelf, (perhaps humidity controlled) somewhere, and will have a paper back to reread from time to time, and then will eagerly purchase an ebook as well for ease in transporting and having all the HP books plus books about the HP books together, but that is the collector, the fan, the true believer. I know they exist. I too have some collectibles. Two of them require a hanger. BUT I read fiction books usually once. I admit I used to pack them away on shelves, sometimes just planks on brick columns, back in the day when the Navy moved me for free. But I have been culling ever since my commander called me in one day, and said "enough is enough, the service can't afford to haul your bricks one more time, so get rid of the bricks." Wake up folks. Wake up. Pay whatever you want for that special edition, that autographed copy, but don't be in denial about the way the pricing works.