10-13-2014, 09:05 AM | #31 |
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I can only talk about the books that I buy, which are primarily backlist crime, SF, and fantasy, and what I stated is perfectly true for those. Obviously I don't know what books that I never look at cost. It may well be that someone who mainly buys "bestsellers" will have a different experience.
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Harry, about 2008 I guess, perhaps earlier, I was paying full hardcover price for ebook versions of a then popular Mil SF series called Starfist. This was on release date of each new book. If I recall correctly, this was around the US$30 mark. |
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10-13-2014, 03:09 PM | #34 |
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I'm not "inflating" anything, and it's rather impolite of you to suggest that I'm somehow being dishonest. I am reporting the TRUTH of my personal book-buying experience.
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I buy new sf and fantasy books mostly and from amazon.com since I am in Sweden. And the Kindle book is always cheaper after correction for difference in VAT). Are you saying that for you the Kindle book is more expensive? Kan you give some titles in that case since I thought Germany also bought from amazon.com.
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"It really is the case that, in the UK at least, ebooks on average cost around half the price of paperbacks." Excluding sales and special timed offers that would skew the figures, I would estimate that the typical discount for me would tend to be something more like 20%. |
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I think it also has to do with the actual books themselves. A lot of PD books are either free or only cost .99 for example, but a more recent book or one that is popular will cost the buyer more than the PD titles. A lot of collections of an older author's work (Like Bram Stoker for example) will cost you .99 or more depending on the seller even though his works are in the PD. I imagine the Delphi collection of his works costs more than that as well though I don't know why. More a charge for their time putting the collection together and editing it perhaps? Some ebooks do cost about what the paper version costs though. Some cost even more. For example "Book in a Month" by Victoria Lynn Schmidt costs you $9.78 in paper but it costs $11.99 in ebook now. You would expect it to be the other way round.
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I'm not even counting Kobo codes; they often reduce the ebooks's price to less than €2. (Granted, I've never had the opportunity to use a code anywhere else besides Kobo, and diesel-ebooks.) The last option to reduce the price is to shop in the UK or US, which will lower the price even more as long as the Euro is worth more than the pound or dollar. In the last three years, I've bought over 750 ebooks. I would not have done that had I been still buying paper books. |
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In Canada, e-books are either more expensive or costs the same as p-books. I have posted examples earlier in the thread. Of course, this is relating to bestsellers and popular books. The Kobo codes will not help as those codes will not work on books by Simon & Schuster, Random House, Penguin etc |
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