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Originally Posted by Yapyap
Up to $2.99 for a self-published author I haven't read before, and this only when it comes with several reliable, non-biased recommendations and has an interesting (and grammatically correct) description/blurb. But at that price, it's not so much an impulse buy but one I actually consider.
I'll get indie books for free or rarely for $0.99 also without non-biased recs if it looks interesting and the blurb doesn't have noticeable mistakes in it.
I buy mostly traditionally published books at $5-6 (with Kobo coupons if possible), so I'm not likely to take a chance on an indie who may or may not be able to write and deliver a decently written (and edited, or at least looking like it's been edited) work for more than half of that.
I'd be willing to pay a similar $4.99-$5.99 also for a self-published author if I've already read something by that author and loved it enough to want to read more; so far, I've yet to come across a single self-published author like that, though.
There are a very few trad-pubbed authors I'll pay up to $10 for (and only if it's a next book in a series I'm already hooked on; with standalones, I can wait for the price to come down) and only a couple I'll pay more than $10 for.
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I personally don't think you should pay $10 for any book and we are talking about ebooks here and not printed hard backs with pretty covers.
I have been pleasantly surprised by some of the comments here, but one thing that has stood out from everything else is the amount of crap that is available for sale. Now I know this is a dodgy subject, because one man's crap is another man's gold, but shouldn't the publishers/distributors of this rubbish be saying “Hold on this is drivel, we don't want it”? Wouldn't that make space for serious writers and give you, as buyers more confidence to buy new untried authors.
It may be profitable for the likes of Amazon (and I'm not pick them out particularly) to sell this stuff, but is it cost effective in the long run and don't they have a duty to weed this rubbish out?