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View Poll Results: Will you buy an ebook even if a paper edition is the same or less money? | |||
No, if the paper edition is less, I'll buy the paper edition. It's all about the content. | 26 | 14.86% | |
No, if the paper editon is less, I won't buy the book on prinicple. Ebooks should cost less. | 65 | 37.14% | |
Yes, I want an ebook because I want what the ebook format offers me. Paper price is irrelevent. | 66 | 37.71% | |
Other, please explain. | 18 | 10.29% | |
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I prefer print editions because they have greater value. If it's a great book, I'll put it on the bookshelf. If it's merely a good book, I'll pass it on to someone else (who is likely to pass it on to yet someone else, thus multiplying the effect). I would make an exception if I were stuck on an Amtrak train south of Trenton, or I were in the hospital or needed the book right away.
One of the awful things about e-books I've noticed recently is that often enough I don't know the name of the book or (even more often) the name of the author, because instead of picking up the physical book off the night table, I pick up a generic black-cased Fire tablet, and the book opens to the Furthest Page Read. "Hey, I just read a great book lately!" "Really? What was it?" "Um, I'm really not sure...." |
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