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Old 10-08-2008, 02:35 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
1) how many e-books have you purchased total (all sources)?

the rest are Connect specific -

2) how many e-books have you purchased via Connect?
3) What kind of books are you buying?
4) How many new books verse e-copies of books you already have?
5) How many backlist (i.e. older) books do you have, and by who?
1...
* From Amazon.com for my Kindle: 49 books. 20 of those were purchased for $0.00 -- 3 mysteries and 17 TOR promotional eBooks.
* From Steve Jordan: his big SJBundle containing 11 novels and one short story
* From Fictionwise: 8 Multiformat novels
* From Baen/Webscriptions: 2 books, one was an omnibus edition of a fantasy trilogy
* From Harper Collins: 1 MobiPocket as an experiment for using mobidedrm

2...
* No books purchased via the Connect software. There were two books which might have come from the Sony store on the second-hand reader that I purchased.

3...
* Science Fiction and Fantasy
* Mystery

4...
* Mostly new books. I did buy a couple of eBook titles that I already owned in paper. I will be doing more of this as time goes on. Some of the time it will be because I have given away the original paper book and I would like to have a copy to keep.

5...
I have purchased:
* Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein
* Deeds of Paksenarrion, Moon
* Door Through Space, Bradley
We won't count all the free SF and fantasy that I downloaded from Baen. I had never read any of the Honor Harrington series and now I'm definitely enjoying it. I do plan to purchase more of Heinlein's backlist and probably most of Anne McCaffrey's.
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