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Originally Posted by danskmacabre
ebooks are often as expensive or more than pbooks.
I see a lot more sales of REALLY cheap pbooks around than I do of ebooks as well.
The exception to this is indie authors, who sell their ebooks dirt cheap, actually often I buy ebooks from indie/new authors now as the big name authors for ebooks are often very high prices.
Indie authors often don't have pbooks anyway
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Well, I personally get very sad when I Google my name and find out that people are downloading my books all over the Internet. Anyone can say that books should be free and I don't deserve compensation for my work because it's not really work, it's just words on a page, but I do like to feed my kids and I would really like to be out of debt someday.
It's just me taking care of myself, I don't really have anyone else to turn to. That being said, I love to read and I love the idea that people are reading things I've written. I know that I'm not the only person in dire financial straits, so I try to keep my prices at an affordable range. And yes, I am arranging for paperbacks to be available, though I really hate formatting PDFs
I don't DRM my books because I know what a hassle it can be trying to read one with a big ol' security mechanism on it, but the way things are going I'm thinking about doing it to any I publish on Amazon in the future. Why? Because people buy books, copy them, then return them. Then five minutes later the book is on some torrent site. Lame.
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pbooks last a lot longer than ebooks imo.
Do you think you'll be able to read your ebpub in 10 - 15 years time what with format changes?
Ever tried to convert an ebook to another format with lots of DRM on it (legally)?
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I highly doubt Amazon is going out of business in the next couple of years, and with the availability of programs like Calibre, you can change the format of an ebook to whatever reader you have. So there's a good chance that in the future you will never have to repurchase any ebook as long as you have a backup copy.
I have rebs I turns into lrfs that I turned into epubs and then into mobis, and they're still perfectly readable five years later. Anachronistic ereaders are no longer the hardship they used to be because technology has moved past that point.
I have a collection of original Andre Norton paperbacks that even though they've only been lightly read, just the passage of time has yellowed the pages and soon they'll be falling apart.