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Originally Posted by jbcohen
The biggest problem confronting us voracious readers is the cost of the ebooks, $8 per book is not bad however increase that to $10 per book and the increase in the cost can really add up.
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I seldomly pay more than $6.95 for a book.
That will sometimes happen if I buy a series, using Kobo coupons, and Kobo is missing a book. Then I'll have to get it at full retail price somewhere else. Most of my books are easily between $1 and $3 however; with the most of them under $2.
I don't buy books all the time: I make lists and go on sprees when Kobo has coupons. The last few coupon runs have actually emptied my entire wish list. Now I have over 700 books (including 36 Delphi Classics, giving me all the classics I ever wanted, and more), and I'm not even counting the free stuff such as Baen CD's. I just don't know what to buy anymore.
I'm set for at least 10 years now, without buying a book in the mean time. The only thing I'll be doing, is keeping up with series of known authors.
Then again, even IF I would be paying full retail price for each book, then the price in Dollars would be lower than the one in Euro's; and thus, at the moment, it gets even lower for me after conversion. A full retail priced e-book in the US will turn out to be around 40% cheaper than I'd pay for a paperback in the Netherlands.
For me, the biggest issue as of now is TIME, not lacking money or books.