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[coraa]

I would love, love, love it if publishers would offer bundles of ebook and paper book. Like—I'm making up numbers, bear with me—if a paperback is $8 and the ebook version is $6, I'd pay $12 for both the paper copy and a download link. If a hardcover is $20 and the ebook is $10, I'd pay $26 for both. Like that.

I wonder why no big presses have done that. Perhaps they think they can get people to pay full price for both? But that doesn't seem like it'd happen very often.

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[green_knight]

Only yesterday I noticed a small (5 title) non-fiction publisher doing just that: hardback: $20; e-book: $10, both: $25

I've long said that if Terry Pratchett were available in e-book I'd buy the whole lot - because when you talk about books it's so much easier to search a file so you can find the references; and while I'm not, and won't be for a while, read e-books all the time (the 'in the bath' problem) I'd love to have the book on the go available both as paperback and electronically. Leave the house, continue to read the same book sounds great.

[coraa]

Exactly! My only ebook "piracy" ever was when I was in an online RPG based on an author's book series, back in college. I owned all the books in physical copy, and most were bought new (a luxury for me in college, when I had no money). But I also wanted an electronic version so that I could search for certain terms when trying to resolve a canon question. Since the ebooks were not at that time available legitimately anywhere, I did download them, without much qualm. But that was a case where I probably would have paid for a bundle.

And yeah, that's exactly it. I bring my Kindle with me on trips, and I tuck it into my bag in case I want something to read if I have an unexpected delay. But I like having a paper copy so that I can read it in the bath, lend it to friends, etc. Being able to switch between the two would make me a very happy camper.