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I've been spending the last year or so trying to curb my tree-corpse addiction, simply due to lack of space. I started out fairly sensibly, deciding not to buy new books just because they looked interesting; they had to be either part of a series I was already reading or from an established author that I know I like.
I've pretty much kept to those rules with physical books, but at the same time I've been switching most of my hardback/trade purchases over to ebooks as the prices come down to make that reasonable. (Yes, $12.99 for an ebook is steep, but not when compared to the HC's $15 street price or $26 list price.) I've been a bit more experimental with my ebook purchases, due to the low-price and no-space factors. In fact, I bought two dozen ebooks to replace the unwieldy trade paperbacks, which then went to the used-book shop to help offset the conversion cost. Another six-book physical series magically turned into a single-ebook omnibus in the same way, more than paying for the conversion.
The biggest thing keeping me from going full-on electronic is the mass-market pricing, which makes NO SENSE. Eight bucks for an ebook, or the same eight bucks (maybe less) for a physical book that I could trade in later? Give me the p-book every time. On the other hand, if I saw that same ebook for about $6 or lower, I'd be all over that format.
At least Amazon's "helping" with the discontinuation of their 4-for-3 paperback deal, which is how I've gotten most of my MMPBs for several years. That one change has really made me start delaying purchases of new MMPBs and/or looking elsewhere for them. I mean, if I'm paying full retail, I might as well support a local bookstore, right?
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