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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I'm not considered particularly wealthy, but I tend to buy somewhere around 200 to 300 books a year. A few months ago, I posted how many books per year I've purchased over the last 5+ years and the average price per book. As I recall it was a bit in excess of $10 per book, but not a whole lot. I buy roughly a third of my books at hard back prices.
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New release hardbacks are $35-45 (sometimes even more) in my country. They really are for the wealthy, or perhaps for a special gift occasion, or for people who read very few books a year. If they were only ten bucks that would be a rather different proposition. (I still wouldn't buy them for accessibility reasons, mind you.) I don't know any regular people who are dropping forty bucks on a coffee.
But every author I know values their library readers as much as they do any others. And particularly love it when their library readers place purchase requests with their local libraries (which I do quite a lot) - it's not only a sale, but it gets the book into the hands of more readers who may not have picked it up otherwise. I only know of one or two writers who have gone on record as disdaining library readers, and they were very roundly criticised for their stance.