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Wizard
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This is a good question and something I am going to have to look into. There are books that I have bought but not read... way too many truth be told
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Ticats win 4th straight
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Raleigh, NC
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In eleven months, I have yet to buy an eBook.
My eBooks have been either those that came with my jetBook Lite or were downloaded mostly from MR's library. |
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I had a little pre-agency binge but haven't read them all yet so I am not sure how to count
![]() The other thing is, I track by money spent divided by books read, and that includes the cost of devices. So I don't just keep a straight dollars spent accounting, because the stats take into account amortization from free books, library books etc. and only count completed books. Going by that number, I am at about $8 a book, which is satisfactory to me and a much more useful number than simply saying 'I spent x dollars on books this year.' Even so, I am anticipating halving my total next year. |
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Toronto
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I've had a Kindle 2 since Nov 21 2010 -- call it a year. I've also acquired a Kobo (May 1) and a Kindle 3 (Aug 30), and a couple of accessories (covers for the Kindles).
I've mainly shopped at Kobo, Fictionwise and Amazon, but a few purchases were made elsewhere such as the Sony store. In Canada, the Sony store is pretty lame and, since May, Fictionwise as well -- pretty lame. But it surprises me how few purchases have been at Amazon -- $100 vs. $200+ at both Kobo and Fictionwise. But that is attributed to the ongoing Kobo discounts and the former Fictionwise micropay plan, now expired. In year one, the hobby has cost: • $685 on devices + $80 on accessories • $580 on ebooks for 146 titles • $25 on ebooks for 100 titles of 2 classic mystery writers that probably are subject to copyright So ... even though some of the ebooks have cost as much as $20 (!), and several have flirted with $10, the freebies (of commercial, not PD, works) and lower cost items bring the average cost down to abt $4 each. And that includes all taxes, etc. Looked at another way -- I've spent $585 on Kindles and accessories but only $100 on ebooks -- 19 paid and 26 free, but just $170 on the Kobo (I love Canadian taxes ... not) and $235 on ebooks -- 42 paid and 4 free but most of those paid acquired some sort of discount. |
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Location: Anaheim, CA
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I've had my Kindle 3 since early September but have so far read only 6 books on it (I'm on my 7th one now). They were all freebies! So: $0.
I've acquired quite a few ebooks since I got my Kindle, including non-free ones; however, I've still only spent $0.36 because I bought them all using gift cards I earned at various websites. ![]() |
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Geek... Apparently
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Location: Herts, UK
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I've either read classics from the archive here and at manybooks. Or have re-read some of my old p-books. So I am at $0. I am going to purchase the latest wheel of time book, but as I want to 'refresh' myself with the story before I purchase it, it may be some time (or I'll get it for christmas from the OH).
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I don't track, but I'm paying less for e-books than I was for trade paperbacks, which were my print staple. And I like being able to buy on demand. I'm a happy camper.
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Location: Canberra, Australia
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This year, I got to about AUD $35, before it became too tedious to buy ebooks at a price I think is fair.
Last year, was closer to $150, when I could still get books from waterstones, fictionwise and others. Next year, will be close to $0 |
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ZCD BombShel
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Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA)
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Now you made me curious. 15 purchases at BN.com for 81 dollars and change; 33 at Books on Board for 249 + ; 18 at Sony, but I can't get it to show me how much I spent, but I'm figuring it averaged 7.99/book so, another 143.82.
I told Chris and he said, "Meh"... LOL. That's for purchases though, I haven't read all of them yet. |
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Read on the Kindle since I acquired it earlier this year:
My total cost for the books I actually paid for out of the ones I've read or gotten pretty far into reading is: $51.23, which divided by 66 (counting each partial-complete book as a half with the novellas/shorts tossed in for good measure), nets me an average cost of 78 cents per read. If we exclude the stuff I've already read in paper copies and re-acquired as e-book versions as well as unfinished/shorts, then the total is 47 at $42.96, thus 91¢ per. My average read-and-paid-for cost is $2.68. Thank you, Fictionwise and Kobo, for your excellent discount coupons and good MultiFormat genre selections/lack of Agency no-discounting-allowed pricing for Canadians. Last edited by ATDrake; 11-29-2010 at 03:00 AM. Reason: Forgot about one, re-did the numbers. |
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I've probably read 20 paid books all from amazon at an average of 9.99 each, some cost more, some less. I also have read a lot of freebie public domain books. I try to mix one of those in every other book. This month it will be The Woman in White, the Mobileread Dec Club book.
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One of the good point with the wheel of time is that the books are long
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Location: Tennessee, USA
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I've read 22 ebooks I've spent money on so far this year, at a total cost of $173.55, or an average of $7.89 a book--mass market paperback prices, more or less, which isn't a bad value for something I'm probably going to read once and never open again. (If you average in the 66 ebooks I read for free, the cost per book drops to $1.97. Now that's a bargain!)
Ebooks that I spent money on this year, whether I've read them or not, come to 46 at a total of $280.29, or an average of $6.09 a book. (Not surprising that the average drops--if I see a book I think I might like at a really good price, even though I don't intend to read it soon I'm likely to pick it up. On the other side of the coin, if there's a book I really want to read, and soon, I'll dish out more. But not more than $9.99. (Clearly I'm one of those people.) But again: I'll read it once and probably never open it again, so it's not worth more than $9.99 to me. It's like going to the movie theater--I see the movie, that's it, I'm done. (And I'm not paying more than $9.99 to see a movie, either--I don't care how much more it costs to make than a book.)) |
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Ugh..you had to make me look.
$340 since August of this year. That's just from NY publishers. All my indies are from SW. To figure out everything else, I'd have to dig up my iTunes, B/N, and Kindle accounts. And I don't want to do that. And I'm not going to go all the way back to 2007, that would just make me sad. ![]() Last edited by jaxx6166; 11-29-2010 at 08:58 PM. |
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