Thread: Are you prepared to pay the same price for an ebook as for the print book?
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Old 07-24-2017, 07:14 AM   #105
John F
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Are most books sold to the 1-book-a-year brigade? Very probably, yes. I doubt that one person in a thousand buys the 100+ books a year that's entirely normal for MR members. We're the outliers, by any measure. But for us outliers, ebooks are cheaper than paper books, due both to the fact that most titles have cheaper ebooks than paper books, and because we pick up the freebies, deals and special offers that the supermarket buyers never see, and those can push the average price paid per book way down.
You should probably modify your statement for "members in Britain". And for what it is worth, book market size:
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