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Originally Posted by ficbot
I keep hearing about how worried the publishers are about the ebooks because they think the people who bought ebook readers are the people who used to buy the hardbacks, but I have yet to encounter a single reader for whom this is true.
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I picked the third choice, but I didn't buy a LOT of full-price hardbacks. I bought them when I wanted to read something badly enough to pay full price for it. I often picked them up second-hand or from the remainder table. I also bought paperbacks, both mass-market and the larger format. For a year or two before buying my first ebook reader (Jan. 2008) I was making heavy use of the public library and just not buying a lot of stuff for casual reading. I was reading more and more on my Treo, but mostly public domain books. I think since buying an ebook reader, I've spent more on average per book that I actually purchase (not including free public domain stuff) than I did before.
I still buy a lot of research books and scholarly books from university presses. Some are hardback, some not; it's not a consideration. The softbacks can be $50 or more. Some of them, if they were available as ebooks I would buy them, but they often are not.
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Reasons they have for buying ebooks are either the convenience (I can buy it right now at midnight from home etc.) or for archival/storage (don't need three houses worth of shelves to store them).
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Both here.
