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Since you created a poll about it I'm assuming it's the former. If I was a betting man, I'd bet that most ebook consumers don't even give the printed price a passing glance when they buy their ebooks (but I have no evidence, of course). |
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07-20-2017, 12:13 PM | #47 | |
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I pay 0% in sales tax and I was still in the US last time I checked. You can't force an equivalency here unless you're talking about an individual in a specific place.
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07-20-2017, 01:15 PM | #49 |
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07-20-2017, 07:12 PM | #52 |
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Rarely actually what?
I believe every book I click on at the U.S. Amazon site has the prices listed side by side. For example: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...VVHST0Q1Q17K70 |
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Of course many of the ebooks I look at don't have paper editions. |
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Also ... I don't buy many books from Amazon. The ebooks stores I buy from don't sell print books, so I never see the print price. As I said, I have no evidence for my opinion, but I'm sticking by it just the same. I just don't think most ebook consumers are comparison shoppers. |
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07-20-2017, 08:20 PM | #56 |
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Don't forget that the MR membership might not be all that representative of the average ebook consumer crowd.
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07-20-2017, 08:26 PM | #57 |
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Thanks for reminding me. I suspect the MR membership is far from typical. The question of how the general public differs is something we can only speculate on, no doubt in accordance with our own views.
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07-20-2017, 08:32 PM | #58 |
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In my opinion, none of us here are average. We're all hardcore something.
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07-20-2017, 10:34 PM | #59 | |
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The tax for you is included in that $7.88 USD, just like the tax for me is included in the $12.99 USD. Check out my links in first topic, that should make it all clear to you. |
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I go by what I think is fair price to pay for an ebook, not by what they are charging for the physical variant ... unless of course I happen to notice it is around the same price, or as has often been the case for a paperback, somehow, cheaper. Sometimes, based on number of pages, I will want to pay less or more. It is a difficult comparison to make though, as all sorts of tricks are done to make a book seem longer than it really is. But hey that happened with physical books too. Sometimes though, big blockbusters are much easier to determine. Not even file size is always a good indicator. There are huge differences in costs between a physical book and ebook ... and I'm not just talking manufacture here. There is transport, shipping, storage all over the place. Then damages, errors, preferential display costs. Eventual dumping, burning or sales markdowns. Then of course the huge secondhand book market that the author or publisher makes no benefit from. And the list goes on. There is lending, from which other things can flow on. etc etc. We are often being done like a dog's dinner by unscrupulous publishers. P.S. I have an unwritten rule, where $10 USD for a new release is about my cutoff. I will sometimes pay a little more, depending on obvious size and how much I badly want it. For an older release, especially a good number of years, I expect to pay a sliding degree of less, to a point ... a fair point. I am not one of those who buy when an ebook is at its cheapest, unless that is the fair price. I buy when an ebook reaches a fair price ... that's good enough for me ... I believe in being fair. Of course, it also depends on how well I know the author or the reputation of author or book. I will try something at a below fair price cost, that I otherwise would not have bought. If I enjoy it, then I will buy others by that author and they will get something more back from me that way. Last edited by Timboli; 07-20-2017 at 11:01 PM. |
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