I am perfectly happy to pay for ebooks, if the prices are reasonable. In my case that means not more than the mass market paperback. Or Kindle bargains under 5 Dollars... I am waiting for a new book of one of my favrourite series and currently the ebook is listed at around 14 dollars for US residents and 23 dollars for others. I probably could have warmed up to the 14 dollars, if the paper book was only slightly cheaper. But over 20? No bloody way! It's almost as if they want to discourage peple from getting the ebook and push them onto paper. In an ideal world I have bluetooth on my reader, you have bluetooth on yours and voila! I bought one DRMd book so far. I guess books bought in the Kindle store have DRM as well? I would prefer to boykott them completely, but that would limit my choices a lot. I love that Calibre started collecting DRM-free books, I actually sent the guy a donation...
>and the poor, non-US, and otherwise disadvantaged readers get freebies and indie published book Non-US here, I don't see many freebies coming my way. Usually all those freebies that Amazon gives away, cost me money or aren't available at all.
Going away to downlaod my free Romance of the day... ;-)
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I am waiting for a new book of one of my favrourite series and currently the ebook is listed at around 14 dollars for US residents and 23 dollars for others. I probably could have warmed up to the 14 dollars, if the paper book was only slightly cheaper. But over 20? No bloody way! It's almost as if they want to discourage peple from getting the ebook and push them onto paper.
In an ideal world I have bluetooth on my reader, you have bluetooth on yours and voila! I bought one DRMd book so far. I guess books bought in the Kindle store have DRM as well? I would prefer to boykott them completely, but that would limit my choices a lot. I love that Calibre started collecting DRM-free books, I actually sent the guy a donation...
>and the poor, non-US, and otherwise disadvantaged readers get freebies and indie published book
Non-US here, I don't see many freebies coming my way. Usually all those freebies that Amazon gives away, cost me money or aren't available at all.
Going away to downlaod my free Romance of the day... ;-)