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Originally Posted by darryl
It has become increasingly common to find ebooks that are priced at comparable levels to their printed counterparts. What is your attitude to this? Do you consider this good value?
PS: Since posting I realise that the last option, buying when the price is reduced, is not mutually exclusive of the other options. As I cannot edit the poll please pick one answer from the first four options and if you wish indicate in the comments whether you would consider purchasing when the price was reduced. My apologies. It's getting late over here and I must be more tired than I realise.
PS2: Clarification. The questions relate to new books, since used print books are often available at a nominal price. By all means indicate in the comments that you prefer these used print books.
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I would never pay the FIRST "new" price of a p-book for the p-book or the equivalent e-book. There are too many alternatives. A few are listed below.
1. Wait and get a used paper copy. There are always economical books to read and videos to watch while you wait.
2. Book (paper and digital) prices usually go down with time because of the #1 choice above and because of over stocks and lack of demand.
3. The library might get the book.
4. A friend might have it and I do "share" books just like lawn equipment and camping, boating equipment and auto and power tools. I started to add hunting equipment but only once in my life did I loan a friend a rifle because he didn't have one and he needed it in 2 days. By the way that dear friend froze on the deer stand when the deer walked by and stopped briefly so maybe that didn't count.
The only books I ever paid full price for were school books in college when there were no second hand ones and technical books for the job. Now days you can rent a book at college.