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http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...tal-text%2C250 Looks like they are all either $11.99 or $7.99 depending on the title. |
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01-17-2013, 02:48 AM | #20 |
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These ebooks aren't in my library's digital collection, but they're available in OverDrive for library patrons to recommend for purchase.
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01-17-2013, 11:29 PM | #21 |
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When I saw this announcement I immediately went over to B&N to buy the whole bunch... Til I saw the ridiculous price. When the publisher or whoever sets these prices decides they'd rather sell a bunch of these at $2.99, I'll buy them all. Til then, nope.
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01-18-2013, 12:03 AM | #22 |
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Same here. I've always felt that there is too much risk in buying PopFiction that old. In that will the books hold up, seem kinda silly, etc. For some odd reason, in my mind, serious literature isn't harmed by dated and outmoded conventions. But in pop fiction, it seems really obnoxious.
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01-18-2013, 01:29 AM | #23 |
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That's a completely unrealistic price. Do you really place such a low value on books?
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In relative terms compared to the value I place on other living expenses (like food, mortgage, college for the kids, gas for my 10 year old minivan, etc.) -- sadly, yes. I would also be in the market for several of these right off the bat, perhaps all of them eventually, at up to $3.99 each. As it is, there are many more books out there of equal literary value that cost a lot less and that I will be just as happy reading. |
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01-18-2013, 08:53 AM | #25 | |
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Much like the 'Deathlands' series. Fun, escapist, post-apocaylpse read, not serious reading matter. Have a bunch of them in paperback, would not pay $10-12 a pop to have them in MOBI! Cheers! John |
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01-18-2013, 12:42 PM | #26 | |
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By comparison, I recently pick up the new ebook reissue of the 20th century classic novel The Magus by John Fowles & it was $7.59. Now that is very reasonable for a reissue. It came out at about the same time as the Travis Mcgee series (the sixties) and is easily 3-4 times the length. I'm enjoying it immensely. It is now $2.99 on amazon. So $2.99 is definitely realistic. It's just some authors & publishers overrate the value of their works. |
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01-18-2013, 01:00 PM | #27 |
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I read The Magus long ago and loved it, as I did everything by John Fowles. Unfortunately, the Kindle price is now $8.89. As much as I would like to reread it, I have too many other good reads on my TBR list for that kind of splurge. I could not have resisted buying it at $2.99.
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I'll put them on an amazon reminder list, and also someone here recommended the ereader IQ website which tracks amazon prices and will email you if it drops to a price you specify. It seems good although I haven't actually received any emails in the couple weeks I've used it. Last edited by usuallee; 01-18-2013 at 02:04 PM. |
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01-19-2013, 03:16 AM | #30 |
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Thanks for the tip on their availability. I haven't read them all, but my Dad read them, and I sneaked a few of them off his shelf when I was a kid.
I'm in the middle on the pricing. I can't see pricing them at $3, but $12 for some of these is too steep for me. I buy mainly from B&N, and the ones over $8 sit in my Nook wish list indefinitely, while the ones less than that, I end up buying. I've got 25 or so titles sitting in the B&N wish list now, all over $8 - I hope B&N is watching At $8, I'll cherry-pick, at $5 I'd probably buy them all. |
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