The Blinders are Still in Place
9th May 2017
Publishing, not politics. Feel free to skip.
Now, I don’t know about you, but I have a line in the proverbial sand when it comes to how much I will pay for an e-book. It’s a line that I will very rarely cross. I’ll admit I will rarely even get close to the line. That price, for me, is $9.99. It used to be lower but I had to change that when Baen finally got into Amazon. I groused, like a lot of others, because that move meant Baen now charged more. However, there are several Baen authors I will pay that much for instead of waiting for the price to come down. But paying $15 for an e-book when the publisher won’t even admit I own the book? Nope, not gonna happen. I will wait for the price to come down or, if it doesn’t, I will borrow it from the library.
The problem is that doesn’t really hurt the publisher but it does hurt the author. I hate that part but there isn’t much more I can do to voice my displeasure — not that the Big 5 listen.
My local public library charges $2.50 for interlibrary loan, so that’s pretty much my limit on e-books.
I have about 3,0o0 PDFs on my 2TB library drive. Yeah, it’s not as convenient as Kindle, but my Kindle library has 1,141 books in it, so I’m good.