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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Again, while I am not asserting a specific amount, I think it's pretty clear that if you already have a Kindle, and you have a choice between a hardcover at $15.95 + $5.95 S&H, or the ebook instantly delivered for $9.99, you're almost certainly going to pick up the ebook.
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Absolutely, but the question is: now that I have my Kindle, will I buy the hardcover if it's not available for my reader? The answer is no, I won't. I will choose something else to read at my price point in an ebook.
The other question is: would I have bought it when I was buying print books? The answer was usually no. If I didn't want to wait for the paperback, I would buy it used, or buy it greatly discounted somewhere.
Previously I bought at the local B & N. I decided what to buy based on browsing, concentrating on the just released paperbacks. Now I buy mostly from Amazon. Since I also have the B & N app, I bought a book from them when they were offering a lower price than Amazon. I didn't like being tied to just my iPod. So this whole ebook thing as far as my business goes, was a definite loss for B & N and a gain for Amazon--it doesn't have to be a loss for Macmillan or any other publisher with their policies.
As someone else has said, the genie is out of the bottle. I buy a lot of books and if Macmillan or any publisher wants any of my money, it will sell me ebooks in my price range. If Macmillan doesn't want to meet my requirements for ebooks, I'm sure there are other publishers who will. If I'm wrong, there are plenty of good if not current books at Gutenburg.
If the worst happens and I have no recourse except to buy paperbacks, I will buy used or get them from the library.