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Originally Posted by tompe
Well, the most common reason to buy a hardback book among people I know is that it is available before the paperback. And a lot of people buying that hardback is annoyed because a hardback book takes to much space and would pay the same amount for a paperback book if it was avavilable. And for the people that just like to read the book as fast as possible ebooks do reduce hardback sales.
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Originally Posted by ardeegee
I read lots of non-fiction science books (often filled with charts, photos, tables, etc.) and always strongly prefer those in hardbacks-- and almost always get them used through Amazon or Ebay and thus often end up with cheap (often less than $1.00 plus shipping) hardbacks with library binding and mylar slipcovers that are in very good condition (with scientific books seeing very little library traffic.)
(As an aside, many of them from Amazon and Ebay come through http://www.betterworldbooks.com/. I've never had anything other than quick shipping of good quality books from them-- give them a try.)
For books that I conciser to be reference works that I might want to pull down at any time, I strongly prefer to have real hardbacks (but am never unhappy to find a free pirated ebook of something I already have in hardback.) For collections and anthologies of fiction, I prefer hardbacks. But for novels, I hate having to waste finite shelf space on them and strongly prefer ebook only versions and am disappointed when I have to settle for paper. |
this pretty much fits my reading profile. reference books, history, anthropology, religion, philosophy, how-tos (like how to survive the end of the world when your ebook no longer works) are all hardbacks, or the best iteration I could find at the time. I would buy hardbacks of the stuff I couldn't wait for; Weber, Ringo, Jordan, King. no more on the fiction end. I have enough of the other stuff on my shelves and am running out of space. I don't need to keep so much of the fiction