Turns out I spent more than I thought. I bought 24 RAEBW titles for $42.71 from Smashwords at discounts generally from 50-75% off, and picked up another 15 or so freebies which were books I could reasonably have expected to have considered buying myself for the same discounts should they have been offered for sale (I know this because one of them was a collection I actually did buy when it was on sale at Weightless Books last year).
I also picked up a bunch of morbid curiosity freebies which I probably would not have paid as much as 25 cents for the lot of. And that's why I have more than one Smashwords account.
Last year, 30 titles for $57.21, at mostly discounts of 25-50% off. There was more stuff on offer then, which also happened to be more appealing. Too bad we didn't get as many repeat offerings, since I would have liked to picked up some more-by-same-author/imprint if they'd been available.
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