07-21-2018, 11:17 AM | #16 |
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I do have some favorites in hardback, that I keep on shelves in the family room. I need to see books in my home. But little by little many are being given away, especially paperbacks.
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07-21-2018, 01:13 PM | #17 |
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Inferno by Dan Brown was on sale for $2.99 for a year and a half. I believe it even hit $1.99 during a daily deal.
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07-21-2018, 02:01 PM | #18 |
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You don't NEED an ereader, you can read a book on a smart phone, tablet, or pc. You only need to buy an ereader if you insist on reading it in black & white. There are plenty of other options that you have probably already purchased to put an ebook on.
I'm not willing to pay the prices being charged by BPH, self published books have taken their place, and I find plenty of them that make me happy that I did. Especially now that so many mid-listers are now doing so and releasing their backlists. The rest I get through the library whenever they happen to pop up. If they don't I don't care, since I'm reading and enjoying some other book. Last edited by cfrizz; 07-21-2018 at 02:08 PM. |
07-21-2018, 03:23 PM | #19 |
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Yep, but before the Apple/Big Five collusion, Amazon would sell books for less and still pay the same royalty to the authors.
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07-21-2018, 03:25 PM | #20 |
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07-21-2018, 03:30 PM | #21 |
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I would buy more eBooks if they were still priced the way they were pre-Apple/Big Five collusion. But now I mostly just borrow them (novels) from the library via Overdrive. I guess the publishers make money either way, but I've got to believe they would make more with more direct sales to customers.
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07-21-2018, 05:05 PM | #22 |
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07-21-2018, 05:55 PM | #23 |
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I'm not quite following you here. What difference does it make what the average readers knows or cares about? The question is, where does the publisher make more money, with direct sales to customers or via their borrowing books from the library? If by direct sales (which I suspect) than – in the long term – it might be wiser for publishers to lower the price of their eBooks so fewer customers would borrow from the library and more would buy them directly.
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I assumed you literally meant publishers selling ebooks directly to customers. As in: Customer A goes to Publisher X's online store to buy ebooks by Author Y. You know... directly to the customer with no book-seller agency between. |
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07-21-2018, 08:10 PM | #27 |
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I read mostly eBooks now. In the past I switched back and forth between primarily reading paper vs. primarily reading eBooks. Right now, it's eBooks. And I rarely buy them. I'm finding that I can get what I need from my libraries via Overdrive. I said "libraries" because I am lucky enough to have multiple ones in my area that let me join. Seven, as a matter of fact. That's a lot more than most people have access too.
Anyway, with that amount of choice, I can easily find something to read via Overdrive. So eBooks have re-introduced me to libraries, which I seldom used in the past due to the "drive over there to borrow, and drive over again to return" hassle. But online access to libraries for eBooks is just so convenient now, I can't ignore them. Might as well get something back for all my taxpayer money that goes to support libraries. Free borrowing is good! Due to the recent Amazon deal where you can get Kindle Unlimited for 99 cents for 3 months, I'm starting into the Chess Team series by Jeremy Robinson via the KU route. We'll see if I can finish the books in my three month deal. Of course, Amazon leaves out one book of the series from KU, so I went ahead and bought that one so I could read the entire series in order. I guess that's how Amazon hooks you in for purchases ... make most of a series available via KU, but leave a few books out so you have to purchase them instead. I guess that's brilliant marketing from the sellers viewpoint, but it sucks from the consumers standpoint. |
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I'm pretty much down with print books. Only older books or something valuable that I want a hardcopy of.
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People pay what they are willing to pay. It's been that way in the book industry for a long, long time. Some people buy hard backs, some people buy paper backs, some people buy used and some people use the library (i.e. free). Ebooks hasn't changed that dynamic, it's just changed the rationalization process. |
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