From PC World, another major publisher rejects Amazon’s 9.99 ebook pricing model.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/188627/third_major_publisher_dumps_amazon_999_ebooks_model.html
I buy ebooks from Barnes and Nobles’s online ebook seller and usually pay about the same price as a paperback. From $6.00 USD to $8.00 USD. While I could go to a book store and buy it, I’d rather get an ebook so I don’t have all these paperback books laying round that I have to donate or recycle. Well worth the price in convience factor as well as environment factor.
But, what I won’t do is buy $14.95 ebooks. No matter who the author is, if I have to pay that kind of money, I want the hard copy or I won’t buy the book until it’s the paperback price.
Does anyone else buy ebooks and at what price wouldn’t you pay for an ebook. Apple, it seems, believes consumer will pay $14.95 for an ebook from their store and read it on the iPad. Not for me. Don’t need a $500.00 gadget to read a $14.95 book that I could probably get at the book store and then put on the shelf or even loan it to friends.