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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
I don't think price really is an accurate indicator of whether the content is a keeper. I've paid over $10 for books I wound up wishing I had not spent the money on.
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Same here.
For me, it is about the cost and the expectation. For an author new to me, I'm not going to want to shell out more than a mass market paperback copy and will be tickled at a freebie to judge them by. For authors I like, I may be willing to pay more to read it NOW. But those are rare. Right now, there are only a couple of authors who's series books I look forward to buying and reading the day it's out. (Right now, it's only Jim Butcher, Frank Tuttle, James McCreet and Will Thomas)
Otherwise, I can wait a while and see what the price is when I feel like starting the series, or jumping back in if it's been a while.
And for those book I do pay full price for, ($12.99 and up) I expect the author to
deliver. I hate to find I found myself paying full price for a book in a series only to find out the author has lost interest and the book is mostly filler for the next book, or just outright crap. Or that they didn't have someone check it out to make sure the format was okay, no scanning artifacts and at least a spell checker run on it.
When I pay full price, and feel that the author is calling it in and is only after a paycheck, then I quit, no matter what the price.