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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I feel that the Hugo Packet is 'cheating' - the authors see none of the money. But perhaps the chance of gaining your votes for their work is sufficient reward.
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Looking at the Hugo Packet as a "purchase" is kind of problematic, yes, but I would definitely add everything applicable to my TBR, and I tend to account for it by dividing the supporting membership between everything, even if that's not necessarily (or wholly) why I've taken the membership.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I'm resisting bundles as much as I can. It would have to be something really special to tempt me now. The Nebula bundle didn't get there.
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I've noticed that the bundles tend to fill themselves out with short story collections and anthologies, which I don't mind getting* but don't seek out, and the number of items I would really pay for is fairly small. I tend to go through the list and see how many books I would be willing to pay 99p for, and it's usually not very many. B-list books I'm kind of half interested in are no longer enough.
*Since I am reading a short story every day, I can crunch through quite a few collections without really worrying about it. That said, I have cleared quite a lot of my backlog now, and will probably stop this exercise at the end of this year.