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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
I thought that they were going after the people who couldn't wait. Like me, for example, who read "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", then bought the next one, then looked at the third one and, in the end, paid the hardback price because I didn't want to wait (and I wasn't persuaded that they'd drop the price on April 1 when the £3.99 paperback comes out). So I paid ~£10.
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Hah! Yes, I suppose they are going after people like you. But if the ebook had been available, you'd probably have bought that one (assuming you are satisfied with your reader and all that). I have a few friends that didn't want to wait either--but they got on the library waiting list so only waited a few weeks. Would they have been tempted by an impulse, immediate gratification download? Hmm. Methinks the answer is yes, in at least one case. But if you're already waiting until you go to the bookstore or put in a "mail" order...you can go online and get on the library waiting list...or just wait...
We're not all one shoe-size, it's true. I think the point I was trying to make is that in the old model--you would have bought the book. In the new model, you still bought the book, but some of us didn't.
