If I look back for all the time I've been buying ebooks (about 2002 or so), I've bought 1022 from fictionwise and 640 or so from webscription.net and a handful from other places.
At Fictionwise I've spent (including Memberships) $2670.42
At Webscription.net I've spent $2168.00
Overall average price: $2.91
Mind you, I still have around 380 in my "to be read" pile, so my current "cost per read" is $3.77.
And given that I've been reading ebooks almost exclusively since 2002, I reckon that means I now have just over two year's worth reading material, at around 160 books/year.
Hmm... So I've spent $50/month on ebooks over the past eight years. Wow. Mind you, if you calculate it over the time I'll be spending reading those books, it's only $40/month...
And now I've spent far too much time on book price statistics. The perils of a good email archive :-)
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Originally Posted by ficbot
Interesting! I keep track of dollars spent versus books read to get an average cost per book, but my freebie reads subsidize this cost. I just ran the numbers on dollars spent on books divided number of books bought, and my total was $3.60 per book. Not bad, but I would have pegged it at more like $2.50. My current totals otherwise:
Current cost per book is about $8 but a recent sale nudged that up from about $7
If I read every book before buying anything new is will be $4 per book
If you factor in the free reads still unread in my Calibre library it will be $1.78 per book
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