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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Yes, I am going to tell you that. Some like to have clean new copies. Some with mild mental issues may feel ashamed of not having the perfect books richer students do. That's hardly guilt.
When you buy used, you push up the price of used books, which gives publishers room to raise the price of new books. Are you saying that they feel guilty about that? And this in the same generation in which music darknet use is so popular?
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I'm sorry; the sarcasm tags in my comment seem to have been stripped out by the board software. Maybe the next update will support them.
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I read maybe 25-60 books a year, and what I read in terms of books has nothing to do with budget. Budget does affect form factor and buy vs. library vs. interlibrary loan. Also, budget affects my periodical reading.
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I read probably between 30 and 80 novels a year, and literally hundreds of short stories, ranging from 100 words to, well, novel-length and above. (I am thrilled that one of my favorite fanfic authors thinks of "short snippets" as 15,000-25,000 words, and regularly posts 150k stories.) I read a handful of nonfic books per year; recently, most of those relate to intellectual property law, although I'm also fond of books about communication and religion.
Budget strongly affects what nonfic I read. I'd read more Xaonon and Ixaaxar press releases if they didn't often cost a couple hundred dollars each. (Pbook only, of course. Limited print runs.) Obviously, I'm not their target demographic.
Budget doesn't affect my fic purchases as much as DRM does; most things outside of my comfortable price zone are DRM'd. I refuse to buy books from someone who's insisting I'm probably a thief, or that they're so incompetent at catching the thieves who are costing them profits that they have to annoy and inconvenience all their honest customers. (I wouldn't buy from a store that insisted on strip-searching me as I left, either, nor one that had me followed home to see what kind of shelves I store my books on.)
Neither budget nor DRM affects how much I read, which is almost constantly.