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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
While I have bought books electronically that I might not even have looked at if I had gone to a physical store.
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Me too. I've bought a boatload of books and short stories/articles from Fictionwise because there is no barrier to buying something that looks interesting. I don't have to line up in a book store waiting for an incompetent 15-year-old cashier to hurry up. The relatively low price makes an impulse purchase easy. The fact that within a minute of finding a book I can be reading it is great.
And for the seller/author I don't have any chance to change my mind before handing over my money! The same goes for any digital media. I wonder how many people buy a song off iTunes for a dollar when they've heard it once or twice...then got sick of it a few days later. If they had to wait a few days to buy the song on CD they might get tired of it before they buy it.