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Originally Posted by crossi
I support authors by buying a LOT of books not just a few high priced ones. I'm a fast reader. I have frequently bought 10 books in a single week and read them all. One a day is quite common for me. At that rate paying hardback prices is not possible except for the very rare book I have to have Right Now. Anyway what would an author prefer, that I should buy one of their books for $15 or all thirty or forty of their books for $5 each? If they are a one book wonder, yeah maybe they should go for the $15, but if they write a lot go for the maximum number of sales to better spread word about their books and get even more customers.
Also there is the point that back when I was buying paper books, perhaps one in ten of those I bought turned out to be keepers. The rest were just chaff I had to go through to find the books I really liked. Wasted money. No way was I going to waste hardback money on the one in ten odds of getting a keeper. And now I can't even trade in or donate the chaff. I'm just stuck with them.
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How many authors out there have published 30 or 40 books? Not many that's for sure. Most name authors have trouble writing more than one or two a year, year in, year out. Really successful authors might have that much in the back list from writing a couple of books a year over the space of 20 or 30 years.
Yes, I understand what you are saying. You buy 500 books a year, so you want to minimize your cost. But if we are talking paper book, how many of those 500 books are the same author? It doesn't help Rick Riordan in the slightest if you buy 500 books in a year if he's only put out two books in the same period. He cares about people buying his books, either as hard backs, paper backs, audio books or ebooks.