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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
Do most people buy hardcovers or paperback? I'd argue the latter.
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You'd be guessing, and not actually arguing. People buy at the price they're willing to pay for the format they prefer (whether that's an ebook format or a physical format), at the time they're ready to buy. There is no consensus.
As I've mentioned countless times in endless parades of threads like this: I don't even compare the price of a format I
prefer to buy with price of a format I have
zero intention of buying. It's irrelevant. If the price of the format I'm
going to buy is currently too high for my comfort, I just wait until it's not any more. Same as it ever was.
The problem with all the "
ebooks are too expensive" diatribes is that they're all predicated on everyone believing that ebooks are somehow inherently less valuable than their paper counterparts. But everyone doesn't believe that. Ebooks are inherently
more valuable to me than their paper counterparts. The fact that I nearly always pay less for the ebook format of a title than the current available paper version of the same title is just icing on the cake.