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View Poll Results: How many ebooks do you purchase each month?
1 14 13.21%
2 11 10.38%
3 12 11.32%
4 12 11.32%
5 8 7.55%
6 1 0.94%
7 1 0.94%
8 5 4.72%
9 0 0%
10 11 10.38%
11-12 6 5.66%
13-14 1 0.94%
15-20 7 6.60%
20-up 8 7.55%
<1 (by popular request) 9 8.49%
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Old 01-13-2009, 12:29 AM   #16
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How do you eke 10 books from $30???
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sales and fictionwise/books on board 100% rebates should make that pretty doable.



btw, i chose 10 ebooks a month. that might be a little low, but hey - it's an average.

i filled out the dear author survey, btw. if they're talking to publishers, i hope more women also do the survey.
I filled it out as well.

Lately I've been buying more ebooks but it averages out to about six per month.
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Old 01-13-2009, 01:07 AM   #17
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You guys need a public library. I buy ebooks, maybe 1 or 2 a month, but get 20 free ebooks every three weeks online from my library. A non-resident card for the NYC library is only $100 per year if your own library is wanting.
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Old 01-13-2009, 01:12 AM   #18
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You guys need a public library. I buy ebooks, maybe 1 or 2 a month, but get 20 free ebooks every three weeks online from my library. A non-resident card for the NYC library is only $100 per year if your own library is wanting.
That wasn't including the free ebooks I've downloaded.
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Old 01-13-2009, 02:07 AM   #19
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Let’s see........ I got my reader in September, that’s 5 months ago, and I bought 6 books since then (all from A Song of Ice and Fire and 2 dictionaries).
So I chose 1

Far too many free books to read.... I want to buy Pratchet; I want to buy Martin Cruz Smit... But my free reading-list is still far too long (as you can see from my signature)
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Old 01-13-2009, 04:03 AM   #20
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Old 01-13-2009, 04:13 AM   #21
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There's no "none" option so I chose "1". I have enough public domain mystery books for years, so I don't buy any new books.
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Old 01-13-2009, 05:54 AM   #22
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I also fall in the less then one category. There is a lot available to read and I do not buy books with DRM since I want to show my opinion about DRM.
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Old 01-13-2009, 08:21 AM   #23
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It varies a lot. Generally, it's less than 1 a month. I often re-read books and I don't have the time to read all the books I want (I got so many books waiting for my attention!)
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You guys need a public library. I buy ebooks, maybe 1 or 2 a month, but get 20 free ebooks every three weeks online from my library. A non-resident card for the NYC library is only $100 per year if your own library is wanting.
My library doesn't have ebooks that I know of. But I do take out a ton of books from the library.

And those who usually don't buy any, just skip the poll
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Old 01-13-2009, 09:30 AM   #25
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Mostly I tend to buy a bunch at a time rather than some every week. The exception is when a new book comes out that I have been waiting for. For example, in December I bought about 35 books in three bunches & will probably not buy any more for a while but I bought "At Graves End" by Jaeniene Frost this month when it came out.
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I bought my Kindle on release day last November and I now own 317 Kindle books. That doesn't count what I've bought from Fictionwise, which probably accounts for another 50 or so. And Baen, I buy there also...

Yeah I got a baaaaad habit.

But I love my Kindle, it's the best gadget I have ever owned,
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Old 01-13-2009, 10:11 AM   #27
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So how many do you actually purchase each month? Does not matter where, or what device you are using.
I put 20+, by taking my total bought and dividing by the time I've been buying. But it does vary quite a bit.

I buy at least 8 a month - the Baen webscription month, plus a subscription to Analog, Asimov's and F&SF. That only comes to about $22/month.

But then there's new releases and back catalogues....

Checking back, it seems my average ebook budget over the past 6 years has been $55/month.

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Old 01-13-2009, 10:18 AM   #28
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How do you eke 10 books from $30???
It's not too hard.

Baen Webscription: $15 for six or seven books (although if your have all the webscriptions, it is only 4 new books)

Two year subscriptions to Analog, Asimov's and F&SF -
$7.70 per month, and that's counting the fictionwise club memership too. Only 2.5 books per month though, as they only publish ten a year.

Fictionwise special offers mean the remaining $8.30 should buy you at least two books a month on average.

So - $30/month gets you between 8 to 12 new books per month.
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Old 01-13-2009, 11:45 AM   #29
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Having a Kindle can be very bad for me if I don't police myself. Using the Wispernet is just too easy. Not counting free books I would guess that I do about 2 a month but sometimes I go crazy. I purchased and read all 8 C Harris Vampire books in 2 weeks. I try to do a month of paid books then a month of free books.
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I chose 4. Like everyone else, each month it varies. I assumed that "purchase" meant paid money for, so I didn't include any of the books I download that are free. I also didn't include the pbooks I buy every month .
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