Sorry, I’m a little late with this…
Lauren Dane is chatting live right now on Books On Board’s Facebook page! She’s answering all kinds of questions!
Go forth and ask…
ETA: Sorry all, I was too late..she’s already done answering questions. But, you can still read her responses. And you can still enter to win Insatiable!
Then come back and enter to win a copy of Insatiable. Click here and here for details!
I’m a little peeved at BooksOnBoard right now.
Holly sent me an email with the title “$99 Sony Reader, Bestsellers, and More!“.
Now, I assumed that maybe the Sony Reader was on sale for Mother’s Day or something. I owned a Sony Reader and personally didn’t really care for it. But Holly wouldn’t mind having one. I think she got all excited until I emailed her to ask if she had an extra $500.
If you really want to check out the “deal” that BooksOnBoard has going on, you can go here. Or if you are feeling charitable and have $600 to fork over, feel free to email us.
You can bet I’ll be entering this contest….
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I’m in the process of formatting a review for And Lady Makes Three, an anthology featuring Anya Bast, Nikki Soarde and Ashley Ladd released by Ellora’s Cave. I like to include links (when possible) to where the books we review can be purchased in both print and e-format.
As I mentioned before, my personal preference for buying e-books has always been Books on Board. Mainly because their prices are much lower than many other e-sellers. Or they were.
Can someone explain to me why the Adobe version of this particular book is $12.51 after an automatic savings of $3.47 at BoB? On the Ellora’s Cave website the e-book is only $7.99. That’s almost TWICE the price. But it gets better, because the paperback price at Amazon is only $10.39. $2.12 less than the e-price. At Diesel eBooks it’s $14.32.
First of all, it’s ridiculous that eBooks are becoming more expensive than print books. While I enjoy eBooks and the instant gratification they offer me, I don’t enjoy them enough to pay twice the paperback price for them. I don’t care what book it is.
Casee mentioned this to me the other day, because she was searching for a book at BoB and it was twice the price also. Is this the new trend? Are we looking at the future of technology?
If so, I’ll go back to buying everything in Print, much as it will pain me to do so.
I recently read Sea Swept by Nora Roberts. After seeing Ween’s Hero of the Month post, I was curious about this book, so I decided to buy it. I wanted it right away, so that meant buying in eBook format. When I first started purchasing eBooks, something like a year ago, the prices were quite a bit less than regular print price. For some reason, in recent months, that has changed. eBook prices are now sometimes twice what print prices are…and that kind of pisses me off. Although I truly enjoy eBooks and love the instant gratification I get when I buy one online and can immediately download it, I draw the line at paying $10.00 for a book I could buy at Borders for $7.99.
The first place I checked was Ebookwise, because I have their reader and it’s easiest to download directly from them. The price at Ebookwise? $7.49. Since the regular list price in print is $7.99, $7.49 isn’t so bad. But still, I’ve been used to paying sometimes $1.50 less for eBooks and I decided to shop around. Fictionwise, Ebookwise’s parent company was $7.99 the same as the print price. Since I wasn’t going to have the actual book to add to my library, I didn’t really want to pay that.
I decided to Google it and see what was available from where. eBookMall was the highest at $9.49. WTF? Almost $10? That’s $2.00 more than the print price. Soooo not paying that.
The price from Penguin direct was also $7.99. Resigned at this point, I decided to check one last place, Books on Board.
The BoB price? $6.27. That is a reasonable price, IMO. Yes, it’s only $1.72 less than the print price, but I think, as I’m not actually getting the book to add to my personal library, and since I can’t share it with my loved ones, it makes more sense to not pay as much as the print price. Right?
Since then I’ve done some research and BoB is considerably less all the way around. Daphne and I were talking about this last night. She was looking for BloodFever by Karen Marie Moning. Amazon has it listed, in HB, at $14.96. Diesel has it at $16.54 in eBook. Fictionwise and Ebookwise don’t even have it listed yet, something I noticed is pretty much the norm for them. They rarely have eBooks on or before the release date. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it often takes them a full week to two weeks after the release date to show them as available.
The Books on Board price? $13.31.
The moral of this story? Buy from BoB, and not Fictionwise, eReader or Ebookwise.
Ridiculous.