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By: Annette

Annette — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:09:09 +0000

I am late to the party about e-readers but want to state that I am a zealot on the subject. I love my Kindle, even though my first one crashed within a few weeks. Amazon replaced it for free as it was under warranty (I purchased a 2 year warranty which won’t expire until November 2012 for less than $60.00). I am 66 years old and have been an avid reader since the of 5. No, I do not miss the feel of a book in my hands, which rather surprised me. The only other person I know of my age group who has an e-reader is my cousin, who apparently doesn’t share my fanatical devotion to the Kindle. He reads very slowly and doesn’t order a new book until he has finished with the current one, which IMO rather defeats the purpose of an e-reader, which is to build a portable library, not just add three or four books a year as though it were a conventional lending library.

I am bothered by formatting errors as well, but many/most books do not contain any more errors than a print book. However, I did once decide not to purchase a book (a Star Trek spinoff) because it had formatting errors in every paragraph, and generally more than one in a sentence. I had ordered a free sample of the book from amazon, which was charging full price for the e-book, and based upon the sample passed on that book. The pricing is an issue for me, as I feel that many publishers are jacking up their prices as e-books become more popular — generally prices go down (witness Kindle e-readers for $114 at Target), so this may eventually happen to e-books as well. I recently paid $14.99 for an e-book I really wanted, which is the highest price I have paid. On amazon I am always looking for free or low cost books: I downloaded “Outlander” for free a few weeks ago, as well as CiJI Ware’s “Cottage by the Sea.” Both are now back up to full e-book price. I have a good library of free classics and have been able to downsize my print library, to the benefit of my local library system.

e-Magazine subscriptions need to be expanded. There are currently not many offered by amazon. Yes, technical difficulties do happen, but I have had good experiences with amazon customer service, both in e-mail and in live conversations. Over-all, I am a happy customer.

By: sylvia benson

sylvia benson — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:04:34 +0000

I’ve had an ebook reader (Cybook) for nearly two and a half years and love it. Like most avid readers I’ve gathered rather a lot of paperbacks and was rapidly running out of space, ebooks solved that problem.

I too, don’t understand the ‘geographical restrictions’ they have for some books, especially when I can go in the bookshop, or go on Amazon and buy the paperback! I’m still buying the book, so does it matter what format it’s in?

I think the formatting problems may occur when changing font sizes, different readers having different parameters? Most times I can read past that, errors such as missing commas, added full stops and incorrect spelling are harder to ignore and are surely down to lazy editing/proof reading.

As for authors going rogue? I say go for it. I am on Connie Brockway’s mailing list and was happy to hear that she will get the chance to share her books with the ebook community after her publishers said no. Being a huge fan of books like All Through the Night, it’s great to hear she is doing a sequel – self published. I also am a huge fan of My Dearest Enemy, so I did send her an email of support and suggested she wrote that book of Lily and Avery’s correspondence. What you got to read in the book was fascinating and witty and surely deserves a small tome of it’s own.

By: lucy

lucy — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:48:28 +0000

I love my kindle so much that I can’t imagine going back to print. In fact, I’ve actually stared buying more books since I don’t have to worry about space, and leaving books behind when I move. The only books that I buy in print are school books, since ereaders are not ideal for textbooks.

I think ebooks should be cheaper so price sometimes ticks me off, but If I really want a book I’ll buy it anyways. I’m from Canada, where books are more expensive than in the USA, therefore most ebooks that I buy are actually cheaper than buying paperbacks. Geo restrictions actually bother me more than price.

I’ve come across some spelling and formating errors in ebooks, but not enough to impede my enjoyment. As for releases, I haven’t come across delayed releases, except for that time where I saw that an ebook was coming out more than a year after its paperback release.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:05:17 +0000

I use an iPad as an ereader, generally using the Kindle app. The iBook app and bookstore aren’t as good. I was surprised how much I like reading the ebook format compared to a regular book, and I was hoping to be able to buy many ebooks for a reasonable price. There are authors who I have been buying and reading for years, many of whom write series, and I want to continue to buy their books in paper format I’ve been collecting. However, I want to switch to ebooks for just about everything else. But the Agency pricing is awful! Books that have been out long enough that the hardcover is available at a remaindered price and the trade paper (or mass market) is available at a discount (2 for the price of 3, etc.) are available as ebooks for $11.99-14.99. So, I either don’t buy the book at all, or if I really, really want to read it, I buy it used. I’m not going to let that money go to a publishing house. I realize that stiffs the author also, but I think authors need to demand more reasonable pricing on their books, most especially their backlist titles.

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Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:02:37 +0000

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By: Helene

Helene — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:22:41 +0000

I got a Kobo for Christmas. It was the best gift ever!!! I love it. I don`t have to go to the bookstore for a new book. I love that a lot of hardcovers are at a normal price. I only buy ebook now.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:32:21 +0000

I have a Sony PRS-650 and I love it. What I do not love is paying the same price for an ebook as I do for a hardcover book. The most recent Nora Roberts book. Chasing Fire had a difference of 10 cents between the two formats.

An ebook does not require shipping, printing, warehousing etc. and I refuse to pay that price, even for the convenience.

I bought the hardcover and borrowed the e-book from a friend (which is technically illegal according to all the fine print).

The publishing industry seems to have learned nothing from the music industry with their DRM and restrictive policies and stupid pricing. The music industry has gone downhill fast and I expect the publishing industry to do the same. Maybe the fact that there are fewer readers than music listeners will work in their favor – but right now it certainly isn’t working in my favor