How much do you pay for fiction ebooks?

[pdurrant]

Text books and factual books are different. But for your general fiction reading, how much do you pay?

I'm generally unwilling to pay more than $5 for a fiction ebook. Of the 200-odd books I've bought this year, none were more than $10, indeed, only one was $9.99. All the rest were $6.99 or less, and all but 10 were less than $5.

My median price was $2.97, and my mean price around $2.80.

But perhaps I'm just cheap. How much do you pay for your fiction reading?

[Lynx-lynx]

Gee I like your price tactics

In Aus our ebooks are expensive and I think it would be fair to say that there are more fiction ebooks over the cost of say $9 than there are under.

Which is why we shop 'abroad' so often.

Having said that I've picked up some Amazon deal of the day books for $2 or so, and of course some for free.

However it's only due to Kobo's recent voucher code splurges that have meant that I've been able to buy the authors and books I want (mainly English and Aus) for under $6 per book.

Of the last 50 or so ebooks I've bought the dearest was probably $6 after I'd applied the voucher code. Most books were between say $3 and $4.

[DrNefario]

I'm occasionally willing to go up to the agency-norm of £4.99 for a book I really want - I just paid £4.49 for Joe Abercrombie's Red Country, the day it was out in MMPB, without a quibble, although I have waited for the MMPB price drop - but most of the fiction I end up buying I am buying because it is too cheap not to buy, so my average price is way lower.

Since I haven't read most of them, a more truthful measure might be how much I spend on all fiction per book I read, which might not be all that different from when I was buying full-price paperbacks.

[Russell Brooks]

I've never gone over $4.99 for an author that I enjoy. If it's above that then I'd rather borrow the book from the library.

[speakingtohe]

Once upon a time I probably spent 15-25% of my disposable income on books. Even more as a child.

Now although I have more disposable income and books cost relatively more I spend far less. Not cheapness per se although I am a tad thrifty

$10 is a reasonable price to me for a book but if I see another book I want to read for less, well I will wait and see. $17.99 is far to much although I have been tempted. Generally a book that is selling for $17.99 give or take is available at my library far more quickly than a cheaper book. Go figure. And I am as happy with a library book as I am with one I have purchased. I don't reread often and if I wanted to I could borrow it again or purchase it at that time.

The price point thing is a new thing for me with ebooks. For paper books, I just saw a book I thought I would like and bought it if the price was in my pocket.

Helen

[DiapDealer]

I'm quite comfortable paying a price comparable to the book's current pbook price (if it's something I really want to read by an author I'm already pretty sure I'll enjoy).

[Jessica Lares]

No more than $3.99.

[shanghaichica]

It depends on the book and how much I want to read it. The book I'm reading now cost me $15. The last fiction book I read before this cost me $8. I don't at set a maximum amount for a book. Each book is valued on an individual basis. The book I'm reading now is worth $15 but the book I read before that was not in my opinion and I wouldn't have paid any more than $8 for it.

[rhadin]

I will go, on rare occasion, as high as $4.99 for a fiction ebook, but 90% of my ebook fiction purchases are $1.99 or less.

[piperclassique]

I tend to buy anything that looks interesting, or is by an author I enjoy, when it is cheap or free, then read it later, rather than buy when I want to read. Which means I have a TBR pile of immense proportions but haven't spent much money. So, minimum price zero, including public domain, and I spend about £25 per month, reading three or four books a week in the winter, one or two in summer. Some books come from the library, and I have a twentyfour book a year plan from audible U.K. Top price for a book? Probably about ten pounds, but that is rare. Usually under four pounds.

[bookaho!ic]

i have not paid more than £3 for an ebook i have just created my freebie tbr shelf on my kobo (650 books) and my paid tbr (78 books) i think i can 'afford' to not buy some for a while but if there is a good sale ..... who knows

[Palomino]

I pay whatever is being charged for the book I want to read at the time I want to purchase it.

[HarryT]

Price is completely irrelevant to me. If I want a book, I buy it, regardless of price.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I'm quite comfortable paying a price comparable to the book's current pbook price (if it's something I really want to read by an author I'm already pretty sure I'll enjoy).

That's me. I am reading one I paid 5.99 for (it wasn't available in the library). I love the author, so it seemed a reasonable price for something I was sure I would love.

[carpetmojo]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Price is completely irrelevant to me. If I want a book, I buy it, regardless of price.

I mainly agree with Harry and Palimino - although with fiction, if not in a rush, I confess I have been known to price-check a couple of sites, but if short of time I simply flash the cash ......

Non-fiction, particularly archaeology - and when it is available as an e, which a lot aren't of course - I'm afraid am rather a spendthrift ......