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Those are extremely low average prices that are being quoted here. Do you really get recent books by major authors at such low prices?
I find it quite difficult to get anything - fiction and non fiction - for less than 7 €, and that includes both German and English ebooks. I was quite happy to get Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" (hardly a very recent work) for just 2 € at Kobo, that price has shot up to an unbelievable 10,34 € again right now.
Anyway, I don't have a fixed budget for what I am willing to spend. I spent 20 € on the third volume of Murakami's 1Q84 on the day it was released, but I had waited for it for months and I considered it as reasonable to reward a publisher who had commissioned a translation from Japanese into German well ahead of the release in English - instead of taking the cheap route of waiting for the English version and then have it translated from that version.
I save a lot by using my the ebook offers of my public library, though. It's getting better all the time and costs just 10 €/p.a.
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