What is your most expensive ebook? - Page 3

ATDrake · 03-14-2011, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by oleoleoleusa

A group of Carnegie Mellon students are creating an app to make textbooks available at low cost to students.

Check it out: [LINK REMOVED]

I'm interested in contributing and pledge to do so after 25 people contribute to the cause.

While I appreciate your enthusiasm for the project, you've copy-pasted this exact same text in all the 8 posts you have made so far in the past 3 hours since you apparently joined up and bumped up fairly old threads just so you could post that text.

You might want to rethink your promotional tactics, as this is a decided turn-off and I'd personally be very hesitant to be one of the 25 people needed to "contribute to the cause" in order to get you to pledge your help, especially if the contributions needed to be monetary.

My personal max is $5.28 USD for a book I bought by mistake with the intention of getting a sample and hitting the stupid no-confirmation-do-you-really-want-this 1-click button by error.

Aside from that, I've been lucky enough not to pay over $5 for almost all of my purchases, having bought with sale and coupon discount already generally low-priced genre backlist books which tend to be available more cheaply than recent bestseller-ish stuff.

Of course, once you factor in my time spent fixing typos and formatting errors at say, minimum wage, my e-books probably go well into the $20 range.

FlorenceArt · 03-14-2011, 05:13 AM

Well I paid 28 euros for an e-book this week-end! Not sure why but I really wanted that book, I hope it will be worth it...

Hellmark · 03-14-2011, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by chamekke

Namely, the most that you've ever paid for an ebook? (above $15, let's say)

$35 for an ebook in Adept PDF for my Chinese class, and $90 for an accounting one. The Accounting one was by Pearson, which you have to go to a website to access, and you lose access after 6 months.

CallOfCth'reader · 03-14-2011, 11:19 AM

£14 for Lord of the Rings, although I'd have happily paid more if the price had been higher.

I stumbled upon one in the SF section of the Kindle store last night, called The Haunted, at a cost of £141.52! I think it's self-published ebook only, due to not having a proper cover shot.

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03-14-2011, 05:13 AM	#32
FlorenceArt High Priestess Posts: 5,761 Karma: 5042529 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Montreuil sous bois, France Device: iPad Pro 9.7, iPhone 6 Plus	Well I paid 28 euros for an e-book this week-end! Not sure why but I really wanted that book, I hope it will be worth it...

03-14-2011, 11:19 AM	#34
CallOfCth'reader Cultist Posts: 196 Karma: 8624438 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: UK Device: Sony PRS 505, Kobo Mini, Kobo Glo, Kobo Forma, Kindle DX	£14 for Lord of the Rings, although I'd have happily paid more if the price had been higher. I stumbled upon one in the SF section of the Kindle store last night, called The Haunted, at a cost of £141.52! I think it's self-published ebook only, due to not having a proper cover shot.

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