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Another vote for "This poll really needs work."
- You have two questions on DRM, when as a consumer, I really don't much care what the payload is, all I want to know is "Can I safely and easily get rid of the malicious code". If I can, I'll (consider) buying the book; if I can't, no sale, period (I was burned once, a long time ago. Never again).
- "Poor editing" will certainly put me off buying, but the question has absolutely nothing to do with whether the book is electronic, paperback, hardcover, or cuneiform baked into clay tablets, so I don't see much relevance.
- "Poor formatting", in most cases is only obvious after the book has already been purchased. Yes, I'm much less likely to buy a book I know is poorly formatted, but again this has nothing to do with the medium the book is being sold in.
- "Book is self-published" is once more irrelevant. No, I probably won't buy [random self-published book] by [author I've never heard of]; I'm also extremely unlikely to walk into a paper bookstore, close my eyes, spin in a circle, and buy the first book my finger points at. This has very little to do with who published it and rather a lot to do with who wrote it. All other things being equal, being self-published means I'm much more likely to buy a book from an author whose work I enjoy, since I know they're getting the lion's share of the purchase price, rather than pennies on the retail dollar.
This leaves "A price greater than $9.99 is more likely to put me off buying than a price between $4.99 and $9.99" and "I won't pay more than $4.99" as my only choices (I chose the first), while completely failing to address the two biggest impediments to buying an e-book:
1) The book is not legally available for sale as an e-book, in any format, at any price, anywhere.
and
2) The book is only legally available for sale in certain countries, with all the various definitions of "country" that get used.
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