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of the few hardback new books i've bought over the years, all but 2 were on mega sale, and significantly under $20 - say $12.99. that is what i paid in a brick and mortar store, not just amazon. usually i just waited for the paperback versions to come out. yet at $9.99, there is a chance if it's an author i really like, that i'll be tempted not to wait, and i'll buy the ebook version at that somewhat higher price. that's a couple bucks more than i pay for the paperback version, and i'll bet there are a lot of others like me out there.
as far as i can tell, publishers lie continuously out of a sense of entitlement. they'd rather lie and grouse than adapt. a large number of the higher priced ebooks i get are edited worse than the pbook versions, which makes no sense - i mean, why pay someone to unedit a book? some, including best sellers, not only don't appear to have any kind of formatting, but don't even include the cover art.
and this makes me wonder if they're trying to force us to buy the pbooks by making the ebooks inferior to the pbooks.
if true, once again that shows how little they know their customers - the people who buy ebook readers. a lot of us have no space. i bought over 170 ebooks in the last year, and there's no way i could have wedged 170 more books in my house, or even 50. each shelf in our bookcase is filled with double rows of books. we have boxes of books, a footlocker of books, and we're in a one bedroom apartment. i tended to buy used books so i could just give the ones i didn't love away.
they aren't losing money from me or those like me who buy ebooks- the total number of sales of new books via ebooks they've made are probably 4 times greater than they'd have made from me on new pbooks, and i did spent more on some of them, as well.
maybe they should know this sort of thing. it is their business to know - but they'd rather just complain.
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