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View Poll Results: I am willing to pay full price
if it is a brand new book by a recognized best seller author 7 4.93%
if I knew for certain that the premiuim I'm paying goes straight to the author 17 11.97%
if it is a book I have been excited about three months before its release 29 20.42%
if i get access to it a month before it comes from the printer 8 5.63%
if by full price you mean paperback level 61 42.96%
What planet are you from? 59 41.55%
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Old 02-10-2012, 03:24 AM   #1
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Lets find out if there are any situations that you are willing to pay the same price for an e-book as you would for a full price ($20+) hard cover.
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Old 02-10-2012, 03:33 AM   #2
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Next book released in my favourite series (which I'm buying in ebook (preorder), hardcover (preorder), mass market paperback with a different covers (preorder)).

I'll pay anything to get to read it on day of release, and am not willing to wait 10-14 days more to get the hardcover delivered to me.

But that's the one exception. With anything else, I have so much else to read that I can wait for the price to go down a bit, and as I tend to read YA and genre fiction, even brand new ebooks aren't in the $20+ range to begin with.

(I would also have made that exception for brand new Harry Potter books if there had been an ebook option at the time. I wouldn't pay full hardcover price for the HP ebooks now, though.)

So basically my criteria are very simple, and there really is only one reason why I'd pay full price: if it's a book I really, really, really want to read on the day of release and can't bear the idea of waiting a moment longer, I'll pay whatever I'm asked for it.
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Old 02-10-2012, 03:44 AM   #3
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If there's no physical production or distribution cost for an ebook, why am I paying for it? I realize those costs are actually smaller than most people would think (something like $3.50 for a hardback), but an ebook should at least be that much cheaper than its physical counterpart.
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Old 02-10-2012, 04:02 AM   #4
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Old 02-10-2012, 05:49 AM   #5
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Second option - what premium ?

It would just be the price.

Unless you were given the option to put a bit on top for the author....
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Old 02-10-2012, 06:09 AM   #7
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Lets find out if there are any situations that you are willing to pay the same price for an e-book as you would for a full price ($20+) hard cover.
No. Although I have been known (very occasionally) to pay $15 for a Baen eARC.
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Old 02-10-2012, 07:24 AM   #8
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Didn't answer the poll because none of the responses fit. What I'm prepared to pay for a book depends on that particular book. Closest to 1) I guess except that it might not be a "recognized best seller author" it might just be someone I like or a book that comes highly recommended from a trusted source.
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Old 02-10-2012, 07:35 AM   #9
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Something Fierce, my current read from the Library (a nice read I may add), is one I am considering buying. It won the Canada Reads debate yesterday. I noticed that the price for the physical paperback, though, is $15.96 in paperback from Chapters Canada, yet it is 17.99 in kobo book (epub) format.

I think I will wait for the price to be a little bit less on this one.
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Old 02-10-2012, 07:47 AM   #10
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Lets find out if there are any situations that you are willing to pay the same price for an e-book as you would for a full price ($20+) hard cover.
Never. $11.50 max ($10 + sales tax). And, given how shoddy ebooks generally are in terms of editing, especially backlist, it would have to be something I've been desperate for to get me to pay that much.
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Old 02-10-2012, 07:53 AM   #11
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The only way more than ten dollars for a book is happening is if it is a required manual for work or school.

Ever.

There are too many outstanding books available under five dollars. I cant read everything anyway.
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Old 02-10-2012, 07:57 AM   #12
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Never because if I was SO excited about the release of the HC, that I couldn't wait for the paperback, I would just buy the HC.

And if it were the same price as the paperback, I would more likely buy the paperback.

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Never. $11.50 max ($10 + sales tax). And, given how shoddy ebooks generally are in terms of editing, especially backlist, it would have to be something I've been desperate for to get me to pay that much.
I've also bought e-books especially the DRM kind that don't have the cover described on the book's "page". Instead it's one of the inside jacket things and I have to go and find a cover myself and stick it on. (and this was at the store put out by the bookreader's company).

Given that 99% of the time I am actually receiving a DIY make-a-book KIT rather than an actual whole item, then it's no wonder I place a higher value on the physical object than the digital bits that I stick into my (expensive) e-reader.

There are very few books that I have bought or downloaded from the freebies that I have not had to "clean up" to make it look good on my e-reader, especially to curious folk who want to know what an e-reader is like. This has required self-teaching on my part to learn to use sigil and calibre for technical knowhow to turn a product into what I originally hoped it would be.

I do eventually plan on buying my current read, as I am enjoying it, but most definitely, it will be in paperback form from amazon.ca which so far is the least expensive ($15.16) and shipping is free if I throw in a cd that my daughter wants for her birthday. (and I can pass on the book to as many people in my household want to read it)

At least with a paperback book, the only "skills" I need to use the book, I obtained in primary school.
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Old 02-10-2012, 08:24 AM   #14
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I would pay full price for some ebooks if I could resell/gift them.
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I don't have an issue with higher prices for newly released books. It is my choice whether to buy now or wait until the price comes down. I understand they are recovering the costs for editing, etc. It is prices at or above the paperback for books that have been released for a while that bothers me. Why would I pay $9.99 for an ebook when the paperback was printed with a $4.99 price on the cover?
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