I am not going to buy an e-book that is more than $10. My budget allows for two of them at $10, it only allows for one book if they go up to $14. And it's not like I can make my budget bigger, or that I will find anything else to do with the $6 - that won't even buy an e-paperback. So, my book buying budget would go _down_ and I would end up with fewer books.
I stopped buying hardcovers because I didn't have room, I was only able to afford a very few of them, and only deeply discounted. I just ended up using the library. This meant no sales for authors, my book budget being spent on other things (getting to a bookstore is hard, and well, spending money on shipping books seemed kinda pointless).
The kindle has enabled me to constantly use up my book budget, authors were getting money 'cause I was buying books, and all was right with the world.
I am probably going to have to go back to the library with the raise in e-book prices. Sure, I will get some e-paperbacks, but it won't be my 'budget Tuesday, what do I want to get now'? 'cause it's not like the only books I will be getting at the library will be hardcovers.
An ebook doesn't compete with a hardcover sale for me (you could argue that it competes with an paperback sale, but then I would look at the pair of Ilona Andrews which were bought at my last 'I can get to a bookstore' budget period' which are also on my kindle and say, nope still getting in paperback what I would have otherwise gotten though more of that is through gifts, which again, adds to money going to the publisher).
E-Books compete with the movies (yes, I can get a ticket for $10 in my area), they compete with Starbucks, they compete with the library (and were winning) because those are the places my excess book budget goes. They don't compete with hardcovers because I had stopped buying them until I got my magic phone.
I have bought more books since I got my magic phone then in the last year. I am not the only one I know that is true for.
I am going to have to wait and see. A model where I had to wait a month or so to get it would work. Waiting for the paperback? Not going to happen for me.
I don't blame authors. I am worried for them. But I think the publishing industry is going to hurt itself by trying to cling to higher prices for something that the buyer doesn't truly own - we can't lend or share or sell our e-book, and it's DRM so we are stuck with the kindle software.
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I stopped buying hardcovers because I didn't have room, I was only able to afford a very few of them, and only deeply discounted. I just ended up using the library. This meant no sales for authors, my book budget being spent on other things (getting to a bookstore is hard, and well, spending money on shipping books seemed kinda pointless).
The kindle has enabled me to constantly use up my book budget, authors were getting money 'cause I was buying books, and all was right with the world.
I am probably going to have to go back to the library with the raise in e-book prices. Sure, I will get some e-paperbacks, but it won't be my 'budget Tuesday, what do I want to get now'? 'cause it's not like the only books I will be getting at the library will be hardcovers.
An ebook doesn't compete with a hardcover sale for me (you could argue that it competes with an paperback sale, but then I would look at the pair of Ilona Andrews which were bought at my last 'I can get to a bookstore' budget period' which are also on my kindle and say, nope still getting in paperback what I would have otherwise gotten though more of that is through gifts, which again, adds to money going to the publisher).
E-Books compete with the movies (yes, I can get a ticket for $10 in my area), they compete with Starbucks, they compete with the library (and were winning) because those are the places my excess book budget goes. They don't compete with hardcovers because I had stopped buying them until I got my magic phone.
I have bought more books since I got my magic phone then in the last year. I am not the only one I know that is true for.
I am going to have to wait and see. A model where I had to wait a month or so to get it would work. Waiting for the paperback? Not going to happen for me.
I don't blame authors. I am worried for them. But I think the publishing industry is going to hurt itself by trying to cling to higher prices for something that the buyer doesn't truly own - we can't lend or share or sell our e-book, and it's DRM so we are stuck with the kindle software.