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View Poll Results: Are you still buying Agency 6 ebooks, or waiting until retailers can discount?
I don't buy Agency 6 books now, and don't intend to start. 18 19.78%
If I see something I like, I can't wait, I buy it regardless of the price. 27 29.67%
I'll buy it if it's currently on sale for less than what I expect the discounted price will be. 29 31.87%
I'm putting everything into my want list. 10 10.99%
I'll only buy it now if it has a unicorn on the cover! 2 2.20%
What Department of Justice settlement? 5 5.49%
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Old 04-19-2012, 12:58 PM   #16
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If I need my fix, I'll buy used DTB. Otherwise...I have over 186 books in my TBR Owned list...and those are only the ones I've catloged. The rest (multiple freebies across multiple book stores and older DTBs I haven't cataloged yet) just don't count right now.

At this point, any book purchase I make is purely for wants and not for needs.
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Old 04-19-2012, 01:05 PM   #17
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I stopped buying anything from the Conspirators as soon as the fix was in; print and ebook. I've survived just fine.
So I can wait for the settlement. After that I'll wait and see if anything they put out is worth giving money to them. They may never get any money from me again.
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Old 04-19-2012, 01:09 PM   #18
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I have been using the library almost exclusively. Since the Big 6 stopped selling ebooks to libraries, I have been requesting pbooks. The waiting list for those is actually shorter! I requested Calico Joe on Saturday, and I just got notice it was at the library!
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Old 04-19-2012, 01:24 PM   #19
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The price isn't an issue for me. They could price their books at $0.01 and they wouldn't get that penny from me. The BPH have to wake up and completely restructure to figure out how they can provide true value to the customers and true service to the authors. That isn't going to happen under their current buffoon leadership who thinks the money is just going to keep rolling in no matter what they do. I'll continue to spend my money elsewhere.
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Old 04-19-2012, 01:40 PM   #20
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I have been using the library almost exclusively. Since the Big 6 stopped selling ebooks to libraries, I have been requesting pbooks. The waiting list for those is actually shorter! I requested Calico Joe on Saturday, and I just got notice it was at the library!
Between library books, free classics, audiobooks, dramatized BBC productions, Old Time Radio shows, iTunes U, the occasional free or $0.99 Audible and Kindle offers, plus a few other free and very low priced sources; I have no need to pay sale or full prices for books. Having gone completely digital with my reading, I won't go back to print.

Bottom line is that I have a very full plate and can easily avoid the Big 6 permanently, if need be.
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Old 04-19-2012, 01:42 PM   #21
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I have been using the library almost exclusively. Since the Big 6 stopped selling ebooks to libraries, I have been requesting pbooks. The waiting list for those is actually shorter! I requested Calico Joe on Saturday, and I just got notice it was at the library!
I bet you like Calico Joe but the paper book is only 208 pages long. It is really more of a novella than a novel imho. If I had bought that at Agency Pricing, I'd feel disgruntled about it - not because it is a bad book, but because of the length not correlating to the price.
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Old 04-19-2012, 02:16 PM   #22
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I mean, obviously I'm not going to object if prices fall, but I'm not particularly a price-sensitive buyer. Price would very rarely be a determining factor in my decision whether or not to buy an eBook.
This +1

I don't usually mind paying $10 to $15 on an ebook for the most part, but I sure won't complain if it means that I can use my beloved Kobo Discount Codes on more titles!
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Old 04-19-2012, 07:55 PM   #23
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If I can get an ebook for about 25% off "cover" price and it's one I want to read, I'll buy it. That's the same price I'd expect to pay for a print book (assuming it's available somewhere on sale).

If it's an ebook with an even lower price, I'll happily buy it.

If the Big 6 hadn't locked their Agency prices into the "cover" price, I probably never would have cared about the price that the price was fixed and couldn't be discounted.
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Old 04-19-2012, 08:49 PM   #24
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No. I regard current ebook prices as entirely reasonable.
I agree with Harry.
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Old 04-19-2012, 09:04 PM   #25
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I've been mostly avoiding the 4 publishers who refuse to sell to libraries, that's not going to change. As for the other two, Random House isn't part of this suit so there's nothing to wait for there. I mostly buy from HarperCollins when they do promotional sales and I don't expect the settlement to reduce prices of their regularly priced books to my preferred price range. So no, I'm not waiting for anything.
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Old 04-19-2012, 10:07 PM   #26
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I have pirated more Agency 6 e-books than I can read in a lifetime.
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Old 04-20-2012, 01:45 AM   #27
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A word to the wise, friend. You won't win any friends around here by pirating books.
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Not waiting, in fact I just bought several books. Anything priced $10 or under is fair to me, and that is something like 98% of my purchases.
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