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Originally Posted by pilotbob
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.
BOb
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BOb, the economics aren't there for a small number of books. For example, I just spent $300 over at Fictionwise. That bought me 51 books, (I filled out my Louis L'Amour collection, and got the complete Farfhed and the Grey Mouser series by Fritz Leiber.) plus enough micropay credits for another 20-25 books. I won't get all of them read, (mixed in with all my other reading), for a couple of years. How should I cost it, say, tommorrow? $300 for the one book I'll get read by then? <Shrug> All the rest free over the next several years? I guess I go with the "sunk cost" method, because I sent the money whether I read the books or not. I'd have the same problem if I went to yard sale and bought a box of 50 used paperbacks (thought I'd probably pay less - but have my selection to what's in the box.)
Anyway, 51 + say 24 free books = 75. $300 (for the reader) + $300 for 75 books = $600 /75 = $8 a book. Throw in another 75 free books (From P.D. sources) and the number changes. $600 /150 = $4 a book. The more books, the more the cost of the reader get amortized. Personally, I've read at least 250 books on my CYbook Gen 1 in the last 2 years....