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Old 06-19-2015, 02:23 PM   #1
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Would you pay MORE for an ebook

I just did.

I got a pbook from my library and after struggling with the hard to read font and having to handle a physical book for a day I bit the bullet and bought the kindle version for $9.99. Pretty stiff price for a backlist published in '92, but sometimes the heart wants what it wants. (I wonder how I managed to do much reading before e-readers.)

The consensus feeling on MR seems to be the zero margin cost of ebooks and their non transferability mean they should cost less than paper books, but for me ebooks are just better -- at least for narrative fiction (as opposed to, say, text books, technical manuals, references). I'm just happy the publishers are not able to price discriminate against people like me, due to above sentiment and, well, the fact that if they charge too much for ebooks it would just drive more people to piracy.

At this point, the pbooks lovers are essentially subsidizing the book industry for me, which is great :-)
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