The ebook wars have been raging for a few years now, and the result has been a bit muddled. Books have gone from floating around $9.99 to running anywhere from $14.99 to Free. Things likely won’t stabilize anytime soon.
That’s why we want to know what price for ebooks is right to you. First, we should set some parameters:
- For the purposes of this poll, we are only considering *new* ebooks.
- For the purposes of this poll, we are only concerned with novels. Short stories, novelettes, and novellas can wait for another day.
Now for the poll:
Feel free to leave a comment if you want to provide a specific price point, or a range that is not available above.
0 Responses
I may have paid as much as $8.99 under rare and special circumstances, but I almost never am willing to pay more than $8.00, and at that price I am likely first to see if I can get a used copy cheaper on Amazon. (If I’m bringing my own e-paper to the party I expect a discount over lowest available print price.) I’m a lot more likely to make an impulse purchase at the $2.99 price point and down. And there are still a lot of promotional and public-domain novels out there legally for free.
I tend to agree. Anything over $6 is unlikely to get much more than a 3-second glance these days. I like the $2.99 to $5.99 range for most books, with exceptions here or there.