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Originally Posted by Katsunami
What I was thinking however: would I have bought all of these books *in paperback*, if the price of the paperback had been €1.17?
Me, probably not. I never bought more than 5-6 (one complete series) at once.
You? Would you buy something like 36+ paperbacks at once if you:
- had the chance to get them at a price of €1.17 / $1.60...
- knew the normal price of the paperback would be €7.95 / $10.95...
- knew you would eventually end up with all of them anyway?
Have you ever bought such an amount of ebooks at once?
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Yes, and yes.
We have 3 or 4 Half-Price Book stores in town (lost track when I pretty much stopped buying paper books). Three of them on are on "loop" on our outerbelt (highway circling the city). Some Friday nights after work I would hop in the car and hit all three, one after the other and come home with a hundred books!
God help me, when I moved from my apartment into my condo in 2012, I had 4500 books in boxes (in the apartment, in storage) and spent 6-8 weekends before I moved finding homes for all of them (friends of the library donations, nursing home donations, and finally just sold what was left back to Half Price Books). I do *not* miss that clutter in my home!
And back when Fictionwise existed and had great sales, I often went on ebook buying sprees. I know I did at Kobo recently, too, when they had some great coupons (and before they stopped discounting most of the big publishers again).
Ebook "hoarding" can be a bit more dangerous that print because it just goes on the harddrive. No clutter to trigger my conscience and make me think twice before buying another one.
Overall, my purchasing of ebooks dropped drastically when Agency Pricing went into place, and luckily, I've never gone back to that level of purchasing. I borrow a lot from the library these days. But every now and again - like with the Kobo coupon codes - I'll have a spree weekend.
