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I have purchased less ebooks, some of the reasons are listed below.
1. The mainstream books that I am interested in, and had started switching to ebook format, are no longer sold at what used to be my favorite ebook store. They have and are changing their policies since being bought out by a larger corporation.
2. In fact, the ebook store that I used to buy (a lot) from has starting changing/limiting ebooks (or so it seems) from independent publishers and mainstream publishers in the various genre's from erotic to science fiction. Basically the selection is no longer there.
3. Format. I was okay with the social DRM ereader (pdb format). Although, it is difficult to share the books as I would with a paper book. Now I just lend an old laptop out to my parents or friends and they give it back to me when they are done.
If I buy a series, I want to continue that series in the same format for all the ebooks, instead of having to remember which program I need to have on my computer or ebook reader. Even when I buy paper books I want the series to be all paperback or all hardback.
4. Pricing. I would have bought a new ebook at the $6-9 dollar range, no questions asked (even if the editing, layout, format, etc was an issue). Now with the 12.99 and up for ebooks (usually from some of the mainstream publishers), its not worth buying. Why? I can wait. Wait for the library to have it, wait to find a cheap copy somewhere, wait for a friend to buy it. The extra 3 plus dollars tacked on to a new ebook adds up very quickly and then limits my budget to what books I will buy and want to buy.
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