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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I can't speak for him, but I'm almost never willing to pay $10 for a book; when I read mostly paper, I preferred paperbacks to hardcovers (still do) and $10 was more than I was willing to pay for a new paperback. I mostly bought used, which meant no royalties to authors, and read a lot borrowed from friends, which meant the same.
I bought a few new books per year at more than $10, but almost never fiction. I'm willing to pay more than $10 for nonfic--except that I'm not willing to pay anything for DRM'd ebooks, so most of the nonfic I'm interested in has shifted to "I'll buy it used, and decide whether to read paper or chop-and-scan to read as an ebook."
I've never had an income that would keep me in books at $10 each. I don't expect to ever have an income that will allow me to buy every book I read for $10 each, or even $5 each. These days, I usually read 20k-50k words of fiction a day. While I'm very glad that many authors have released their professional works for free, I also read fanfic and public-domain texts.
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I don't want this to sound rude, but lowering your words-per-day might result in higher income-per-day thus adjusting the ratio in favor of more higher priced books (some of them maybe better quality ones)...
I cannot understand what makes people read 20k words of fiction every day, maybe they should consider reading more complex instead of just more books... I think this is as bad as watching tv and misses the point of reading entirely...