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Originally Posted by xg4bx
too true. my kindle is full of books i paid .99-$3 for because they sounded interesting enough to buy but actually reading them when theres something by an author i enjoy out or justifying the cost of a more expensive book is an entirely different story.
far, far too many of the ebooks i've bought will sit in the perpetual "oh i'll get to them someday" pile. with physical books or more expensive ebooks you can almost guarantee they'll get read because i paid top dollar for them, they're not hidden away and forgotten about in a "stuff i got cheap" folder on an ereader.
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My Kindle is currently full of "introductory sale" books in that price range too, but I find I've been reading more of them lately than the higher-priced ones from more familiar authors I was willing to pay more for. I still haven't gotten around to reading the most expensive single title I've paid for though it's been nearly a year since purchase (mind you, it came in an author bundle of stuff I'd mostly read before).
In part this is because some of the $1-3 ones were essentially to sample whether the author/publisher whose initial work I bought on sale was good enough to put on the list to consider for future, potentially higher-priced purchases. I anticipate possible promotional sales around Read an E-book Week.
But I'm also extraordinarily picky about what I choose to shell out actual money for* and will even dither over getting a 99 cent established series sale book in a genre/on subject matter I like from a Big 6 publisher and insist on sampling and checking out the author's credentials and reputation before I buy if I haven't already read and enjoyed them before.
So I guess pretty much everything I've actually bought falls under the category of "author I enjoy" or "story I want to try" which gives a different level of incentive towards reading the actual books.
* I do acquire freebies almost indiscriminately, though very few of them ever get loaded onto the Kindle, much less actually read and I don't use Calibre, so I avoid seeing a bunch of stuff cluttering up my "collection".