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I'm way in the "savings" territory. Even when you overlook the freebies I've gotten (that would never have been available "free" in paper), and consider that I have bought more ebooks than I would have bought conventional books in that time period. The ebooks I've bought have been on sale at much lower prices than the equivalent paperback would have cost me.
For instance, I just finished reading Honey in the Flesh, a "Honey West" mystery from 1959. It cost $2.50 ($4.99, less a 50% coupon). Similar 1950s-1960s "noir" mass market (read: trashy) paperbacks in readable shape start at $5 at my local used book store -- but the last few times I was there they didn't have any Honey West novels. This book is available as a used paperback at Amazon, but the prices seem to start at $6, plus $4 shipping and handling.
That kind of savings buys another book (that I might not otherwise have purchased).
So, I'm reading (a lot) more, and it's costing me less.
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