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Lots of books, possibly the majority, are the literary version of junk food.
Enjoyable but interchangeable. These books ARE fungible. Back when I was buying paper books about one in ten of the books I bought, at the most, turned out to be keepers even after reading reviews before buying. The rest were wasted money. You just had to buy them hoping to find the few worth keeping.
That being the case, except possibly with very favorite, dependable authors I just am not willing to spend over $5. Since I can binge on a book every other day easily I'm not willing to spend more for something I can't exchange for a better book. Used to carry piles to used book stores and carry away slightly smaller piles. Can't do that with ebooks. As for value, for all things you can compare with similar items and get some idea of whether the price is reasonable or not. Trying to sell a 20yr old harlequin novelette for the same price as a new release novel is not reasonable for an example. Some pricing for ebooks are just stupid. You look at the asking price and then you look at the Amazon sales ranking and no one is buying at that price.
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