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Originally Posted by sirmaru
It would be interesting to see how many folks reading and posting here actually own an Amazon Kindle and how many books you have purchased for it from Amazon.
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I have owned a Touch and now a Paperwhite, but only purchased two books from Amazon, because they were available nowhere else. I prefer EPUB as a base format. I also have two free/public domain books because Amazon's was the best version.
All of my other books come from other stores, with Kobo being the main one, because of their discount codes.
edit: it seems you said that an average ebook costs $10. That is a very high price. Most books I buy have a full price between $4.99 and $7.99 (many of them from A-list authors). By using the Kobo promo codes, and buying at different stores whenever there are sales, I typically pay less than $3 per book. In my last buying spree, I paid less than $2, and I got 23 Delphi classics (each containing MANY books) for $1.50 a piece.
Sometimes I pay full price. This sometimes happens if a store has a huge sale/promo code, and I buy an entire series there. It can happen that the store does not have one particular book in that series, and then I buy it somewhere else.
I've never ever paid more than $7.99 for an ebook (Musashi and Taiko, by Eiji Yoshikawa), but they were discounted by 50% using a code.