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1reading_fox
How dedicated and ebook reader are you?
DO you still boruse pbook shops? Buy pbooks? read pbooks?
I've only owned my Sony for a few weeks and so far all my reading's been on it. But I found myself brousing in a local bookshop and couldn't resist buying some pbooks that i wanted - I knew I wouldn't be able to find them as ebooks. And now I have to decide when to put down the ebook and pick up a pbook again.
It's been really weird not being in a bookshop for so long. There were many many titles I could have bought, and a lot more I wanted to..... somehow brousing on amazon of fictionwise or even baen, just isn't the same.
What do you do?
DO you still boruse pbook shops? Buy pbooks? read pbooks?
I've only owned my Sony for a few weeks and so far all my reading's been on it. But I found myself brousing in a local bookshop and couldn't resist buying some pbooks that i wanted - I knew I wouldn't be able to find them as ebooks. And now I have to decide when to put down the ebook and pick up a pbook again.
It's been really weird not being in a bookshop for so long. There were many many titles I could have bought, and a lot more I wanted to..... somehow brousing on amazon of fictionwise or even baen, just isn't the same.
What do you do?
2WholeHouseLibrary
I've got 120 eBooks (and two 1150 devices). The only books I put on them are reference books and classics (for the most part; Early on, I purchased more contemporary books). I haven't bought any eBook content in probably 5 years or more, and haven't read half of what I've got.
In the mean time, I've bought hundreds of codex-style books, and read many more of them than the eBook format ones.
To your point though, here is the last paragraph of my review of On Writing...
I happen to have two copies of this book – one is a hardcover edition, the other is in an eBook format. Except for the editing examples Mr. King provided, I found myself preferring to read the eBook device over the hardcover. This was due mostly to the font that each format used; and partly because I could still read the backlit eBook in bed late at night while my wife drifted off to sleep. The above-mentioned editing examples were impossible to read with my eBook device. The characters were clear, but too small to decipher.
In the mean time, I've bought hundreds of codex-style books, and read many more of them than the eBook format ones.
To your point though, here is the last paragraph of my review of On Writing...
I happen to have two copies of this book – one is a hardcover edition, the other is in an eBook format. Except for the editing examples Mr. King provided, I found myself preferring to read the eBook device over the hardcover. This was due mostly to the font that each format used; and partly because I could still read the backlit eBook in bed late at night while my wife drifted off to sleep. The above-mentioned editing examples were impossible to read with my eBook device. The characters were clear, but too small to decipher.
4bumblesby
I sort of agree with >3 bluetyson:. We have B&N shops here, but mostly they are paperbacks with only hardcovers on the new releases. I just got my Sony touch prs600. I would say that if I decide to buy a book, I will check to see if it is in ebook format first rather than buying a paperback or the badly constructed modern hardcover.
However, I still love and will continue to buy quality hardcovers from Easton, Folio, etc. I think that there may be a consideration to read a book in both formats. For example a classic. When at home read the pbook version, and when out read the ebook version (since ebooks for most classics are free).
However, I still love and will continue to buy quality hardcovers from Easton, Folio, etc. I think that there may be a consideration to read a book in both formats. For example a classic. When at home read the pbook version, and when out read the ebook version (since ebooks for most classics are free).
5digifish_books
I buy a Kindle. I go to the Kindle Amazon site to check the price of an ebook I want. I discover it will cost me about $2 more than a paperback version I can get delivered from the UK. How can Amazon expect the consumer to pay more for an electronic version than for a printed copy (with delivery) ??
7MinaKelly
Belated addition, but in the UK it's because you have to pay VAT on eBooks but not print. It's one of those quirks that expests because the legislation was written up before eBooks really came to be, and no one's interested in changing it.
(VAT being a tax on luxury items, it is possible to argue that print books are a right, but eBooks are only available if you've got access to a computer, and with most ebooks it would have to be one you owned rather than a library computer. Hence, eBooks are more of a luxury than print)
If you're tlaking about buying from outside the UK, then that the Agency model in play and like bluetyson says, that's the publishers. They want you to buy print rather than e, so they've upped the prices on e. Mostly, it makes me not want to buy their books at all, which I'm not sure was quite what they were hoping for...
(VAT being a tax on luxury items, it is possible to argue that print books are a right, but eBooks are only available if you've got access to a computer, and with most ebooks it would have to be one you owned rather than a library computer. Hence, eBooks are more of a luxury than print)
If you're tlaking about buying from outside the UK, then that the Agency model in play and like bluetyson says, that's the publishers. They want you to buy print rather than e, so they've upped the prices on e. Mostly, it makes me not want to buy their books at all, which I'm not sure was quite what they were hoping for...
