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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Get a reader for the ability to have a portable device with many books on it. Get a reader because it is much lighter to hold than your average hard cover. Get a reader because you don't have a lot of room to store pbooks. But, I don't think you will realize your goal of saving money.
That said, and maybe some other UK people can talk to this... you "may" be able to save some money due to the $ to £ conversion rate and also I think Harry saying that books in the UK about about £8. So, if you buy an eBook for $6 you are saving a bit.
BOb
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Let this UK person talk about the savings to be made with eBooks.
Let's take the paperbacks for a series that's been out some time, but is still popular - Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
The paperbacks in the UK have an RRP of £6.99 or £7.99. The first 25 are available at various discounts at Amazon.co.uk, but to buy the lot would be £134.29, an average cost of £5.37
At fictionwise, they all have an RRP of $7.99, but club members get them for $6.79, and there's a 10% rebate, taking them to $6.11. So to buy the first 25 would cost $153.43. (That's 24 at $6.11 and one at $6.79.)
At today's exchange rate, that's £87.09, a saving of £47.20
That's pretty good for a bunch of not-very-discounted ebooks from a major publisher.
Now let's look at this month's set of books from Baen Books. Baen published six books this month, three hardbacks, and three mass-market paperbacks. To buy them all from Amazon UK would cost £47.17
To buy them from Baen in eBook format would cost $15 - about £8.51, a saving of £38.66
Of course, you might not want all of them. But buying them all in eBook form is cheaper than buying any one of the hardbacks in paper.
Paul