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Originally Posted by Fluribus
For people like me, it's all about the e. I would like to swap out at least 95% of my current paper library for electronic editions. Unless there is some reason that I need paper, I will not be getting paper. For novels, the odds of my purchasing paper are effectively zero. If they started selling them in hardcovers for $5 and ebooks for $25, they would never sell me so much as a single book.
I used to buy almost nothing but hardcover. Change happens. If there are enough others in a similar situation, then driving up ebook pricing to prop up paper sales will be dangerous. I don't know if the ebook revolution is an unstoppable force, but the big publishers look nothing like immovable objects. They risk getting squashed. Maybe Bezos will end up saving them from themselves.
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I'm where you are when it comes to ebooks verse paper. Right now, I'm in the process of replacing my library with ebooks. I haven't bought a paper book in several years now. However, I am quite happy to pay $15 for one of my favorite author's latest books when it first comes out, rather than wait a year and pay $8 when the price drops. Heck, I'm even willing to pay the ARC premium from Baen books to get a book two months before it's officially published. To each his own.