I avoid DRM’d books like the plague so if it’s secure, and it’s a real want, I just buy the mmp. (I have an eBookwise where none of the secured formats work).

I buy from publishers, but because of the constant library, I am more likely to buy from Fictionwise or All Romance.

I saw the question at the top of range. I can go months without buying one, but I can buy 10 in a month if I have the money for them. I’m not a consistent buyer so I’m not sure how accurate a range would be either.

I’ll try to catch the weekly posts. I’m all for proving epublishing as a valid format. It’s long over due.

I believe ebooks are the wave of the future, but they will coexist with print for a few more years. I hope the writers and readers can do the same.

Quality of the stories can vary, but I’ve made far more mistakes with print purchases than with ebook ones – with the bonus of never yet having that “Oh No! I already have this!” after a shopping trip. As much as I love browsing in a bookstore, the ones here don’t offer the breadth of choice to make it worth the price of petrol (or my time). I buy as many books as I ever did, it is just that most of them are in eformat (and the print ones tend to be from the same authors/publishers). I tend to buy from the publishers – Samhain, LooseId, Torquere Press, Dreamspinner Press, Amber Allure, MLR Press – and they aren’t the NYT Bestsellers or Oprah picks.
If someone is going to try an ebook for the first time, I would suggest that they wait until someone who they trust (book-wise) suggests a title, rather than trying the nearest free offer (at least that way, you can find out why they suggested the story, if you didin’t enjoy it!).
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But realistically being on the bottom of the earth here in oz, where in the stores paperbacks are $16.95 – $19.95, talking normal MME editions here too, it is just not feasible anymore. (and darn UPS or whoever it was banning surface mail.. boo)
Most of my ebooks are from the epubs, as the NYers charge way too much, and I get a wider variety..

However, I can guarantee that, in the future, I will be buying more and more and more. I am a rather uncontrollable bibliomaniac and as soon as I have mastered my fear of e-book readers, I expect to be binging ferociously.

How many publishers would do that?

If you buy from FW, all your purchases are available via BookShelf page for a very long time, although FW says it cannot guarantee that they’ll always be there. (probably CYA on its part; I’ve been able to redownload all my books there.)

If you buy directly from Samhain, your purchases are forever linked to your account and you can download in ANY FORMAT you want, as many times as you want. Zero hassle.

So I don’t think it’s THAT special that eXtasy re-sent your friend her books.

I have a question, Amy. Why do you consider it a positive that they charge by the page, rather than word counts? Page count can be artificially inflated by using very large fonts and lots of white space. Word count is a much better gauge to know the real length of a story/novella/book.

I never said it was a positive, I said it was a fact they did, meaning they started using page count and haven’t changed the way a book is sized. The only white spacing I see is the normal 6 spaces for a chapter and in between chapters. It's easy to see when a publisher does the font game. When they do it, I stop buying their books. Every eXtasy Book I’ve ever bought has a 12 pt font. Whether via page or word count, everyone is entitled to their favorites. Different strokes for different folks.

Personally, I wouldn't get another Extasy book if they paid me for it. They sell stories without any kind of HEA/HFN as ‘romance'. And I hate nothing more than publishers mislabeling stories as ‘romance' to try to cash in on the many romance readers out there.

I agree, I hate mislabeled books, too, but it sounds to me like you're saying eXtasy mislabels all their books. That's a really big stick to swing if you're incorrect and such a comment could be considered libel. Personally, find the eXtasy stuff to be better than many other pubs out there, including several who have shafted authors and readers and pop-up overnight and do nothing ore than hurt thr e-industry as a whole.

I recall that book and the ruckus over it. It did not stay private, although I can't quite recall who took it public, it was an attack on the author and publisher that hit several loops. Part two is the HEA for the series. And many authors run series by writing part one and then somewhere down the road, an unexpected part two pops up, sometimes a part three. There’s nothing wrong with authors doing books in 2, 3 or more parts.

I have been buying e-books since I got hooked on Lora Leigh’s Breed series three years ago. I am now buying more e-books than any other format.

All of Leah Braemel’s reasons apply in my case. Ease, availability, storage room, and cost. All that and more.

I’d be curious to know where people buy books.

Right now my paper to ebook buying ratio is still 70-30, but it’s increasing, and I’m stocking up on books from Project Gutenberg. I got the Mysteries of Udolpho by Mrs Radcliffe from there to read for a class, mostly because I want to know what all those Regency misses were so het up about.

My ebook purchases will never be 100% unless I live somewhere there are NO bookstores, and also because sometimes I just want a paperback.