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pcernie
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http://www.techradar.com/news/portable- ... up-1098287I can't help remembering all the quotes about how nobody reads anymore... The game's changing whether authors like it or not - same as music, film, games, software, whatever. That means self-publishing (even if it is through Amazon), potentially renegotiating deals etc. I've bought quite a few books for my Kindle ONLY because they were a quid or so, and I'm an avid reader. Equally, there's stuff that's even cheaper I wouldn't touch! Anyway, what do you reckon? Bad in the long-term?
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l3v1ck
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1) new books are barely any cheaper as ebooks.
2) if ebooks were that cheap I'd re-buy most of my paper backs. But they're not.
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oceanicitl
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I have only paid around £5 for a couple of my ebooks. The rest have been free or 99p / £1.99. So book stores & publishing houses will suffer? Oh well that's progress *shrugs*
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Amnesia10
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While I like the idea of ebooks my one concern is buying into a format that becomes obsolete. Look at the films that were released on VHS but never on DVD. So what do you do when that format becomes obsolete.
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l3v1ck
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In the case of Amazon, I'd expect them to convey them to the new format for free. They won't sell much new hardware if people can't read their old books on them.
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pcernie
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There's also lots of conversion methods as I understand it...
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big_D
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We seem to be paying on average 9.99€ for eBooks on Kindle (Lee Child, Nelle Neuhaus, Jesse Adler Olsen etc.).
We don't buy the "new" books, which are around 15€ or more each. I do keep an eye out for the really cheap deals, but generally the books we like aren't usually offered that cheap. At least we both like similar books...
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TheFrenchun
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I buy Ebooks, cheap or slightly pricier, as long as they are cheaper than the paper copy, and not by 20p only.
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finlay666
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Typically only buy technical books which come with a pdf version on cd anyway, would be nicer to get a mobi/other ebook format too though
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pcernie
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Calibre's good for conversion. _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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finlay666
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Not when it's a PDF in my experience, PDFs are horrendous to convert due to the fact it's not guaranteed to be uniform in structure/layout or even content I know about Calibre as I got the GF a Kindle (one of the latest ones out this month) for her birthday the other week  _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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pcernie
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Must have got lucky with mine then, though right enough the majority of the titles were mostly made up of text.
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brataccas
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cheapest ebook I have ever bought