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Originally Posted by crich70
Ah but when I buy an ebook I'm using my ink and my page (i.e. the ereader) so why should I have to pay more for the ebook version than I would if I were to buy a paper and ink version of the same book? That's the main crux of the problem for many of us I think.
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I doesn't matter. I know...it matters to you and LOTS of other people. But really, price of a product is almost never about the cost to make the product.
What keeps me from buying more ebooks? Podcasts. Streaming tv and movies. Television. My wife and children take up quite a bit of time. Twitter. Facebook. The web in general.
I do like reading....but there are a LOT of other things competing for my time. And yes, I've bought more books already than I'll finish reading for years.
I even quit Audible just recently because I have a couple dozen books I've bought and haven't listened to yet. I've been an active Audible subscriber since they came out and there was no such thing as smartphones.
So...ebooks need to be EVEN CHEAPER for me to buy? Not me. I will buy any Orson Scott Card book. I will buy any Jack Reacher series book, or Jack Ryan, or Jason Bourne, or Dune universe or David Weber (grumble grumble on his latest book, the only one of his that disappointed me).
They don't come out that often that the difference between $14.99 and $4.99 means that much to me.
And I'm buying up Military Sci Fi series from $1 to $5 for the whole series because Amazon has figured out how to target me. I gotta stop cuz I already bought more than I can read.
The best Author's can command the price they charge. People like me exist in enough numbers to keep that going. 1 of me with is worth 15 people who will only pay a dollar.
If you like it and can afford it, pay it. If you like it but can't (or don't want to) afford it, read something else.