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Originally Posted by mgbino
(-----This guy... sort of. I usually read between 100-150 books a year (depending on length, obviously). I always buy the digital version to read and a physical hardback for collection purposes. I easily spend between $2,000- $4,000 a year on books - more if I were to include what I spend on buying books for my son and wife.
Reading is my main hobby, so I don't mind paying for books. If there are sales or coupons, I'll jump on them to save money, but I really don't care. I've never once blinked at paying $60.00 dollars for a PS3 game, why should $15.00 for a book bother me?
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Readings my main hobby too and I can easily go through a book a day. But I also game. I bought Skyrim for $60 and have been playing it hours a day for years since it came out. At $7 for a couple hours entertainment versus $60 for thousands of hours entertainment gaming is by far the cheaper hobby.
My main gripe against the forced agency contract is that it wasn't instituted to help authors or their own business but was implemented solely to attempt to harm another business. If they really thought ebooks were underpriced they could simply have raised the wholesale price they charged retailers for them. I also approve of businesses competing for customers and disapprove of anything that hobbles that natural competion. I don't like businesses that should be competitors getting together and conspiring to avoid competing with each other.