Thread: The economics of e-reading vs p-reading
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Old 10-10-2008, 01:23 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Xenophon View Post
Including the cost of my Sony reader (but not the cost of my wife's Sony reader), I'm at $2.80 per book for 656 eBooks "purchased" since sometime in early 2000. The vast majority of my purchased books come from Baen (by way of Webscriptions.net), a few from Fictionwise, none from Sony or Amazon. Lots of freebies from Tor, Baen, PG, Mobileread, etc.
So are you/we calculating cost per book "read" or cost per book "downloaded"... because I think the former is the more important number.

Also, do I include the cost of a reader that was a gift? What if that gift was purchased with my money (gift from Wife)? Also, how about download cost... or do you figure that washes with travel to book store or book shipping costs?

I did a quick calc, two readers with 19 ebooks read (most free) I'm at 34.68 per book right there. It's probably a bit higher because 5 of the books were bought from scifi-az.com and one from Fictionwise... so say $3 a book I am at... $35.63 per book.

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