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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I bought and still buy occasional hardcovers, if a book is one I want in hardcover I'll get it that way. It's paperback sales that ebooks have cannibalized here.
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I'm the same way. There's some hardbacks that I just **HAVE** to have in my collection. And I'll spring for them. Everything else is pretty much ebook. If I was going to buy the book in hardcover though but wasn't too keen on actually having the physical copies anymore (Read: SM Stirling and Terry Brooks books) then I just bought eBook versions of them.
Which was a bit of shell shock to me, because up until Genesis 3 I had purchased just about every Shannara h/c (with the exception of the original trilogy)
And I'm the type of person to have multiple copies of the same book. Just because I'm weird like that.
Before eBooks were making headway in the market, I would purchase the hardcover for my collection and the paperback to read. But now the portability of ebooks has just made it so much better...
And now I find myself purchasing ebook versions of books I'd never have thought to purchase in any other format. Patient Zero, Acacia, Under the Dome, and a couple indie authors (whose paperbacks were listed at a staggering 29.95 MSRP!) are examples of that.
Some books I actually have in H/C, Paperback, and Electronic. Which reminds me...I've got some dead trees to buy =)