Price matters.
I have a TBR list hundreds deep (for contemporary ebooks) 30,000 deep (classics), and 2000 deep for print books so I'm rarely in much of a rush to actually read a book I run into. If it interests me *and* the price is right (paperback range) I'll but and add it to the TBR queue. Right now the only exceptions are VORKOSIGAN, 163x, RCN, and HONORVERSE titles. But since those are BAEN titles I get them via their monthly bundles which means a $4.50 price instead of the nominal $6.
On principle I will not buy anything from the Price Fix Six. Period. (Anything from them I'll mooch off the library.)
I don't care one bit what the publishers or their apologists claim about their costs; to me the only thing that matters is the book's *value* to me. (Hence the paperback benchmark.) If the publisher can't get their costs in line with that scale that is *their* problem, not mine. I have no sympathy for rip-off artists. (Not that all publishers fall in that category, but I do have a list...
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