Kindle Vs. book question

[ZappaDanMan]

Morning all,

I have a question about how best to support the authors of these fantastic books. I've recently purchased a Kindle Oasis and am currently enjoying 'Disc: Desperate Hours' (75% in, don't ruin it for me ), and will be moving on to drastic measures soon.

I notice that the kindle version in Australia is significantly cheaper in Australia ($19.50AU vs. $7.99AU). Does it hurt the authors by not buying the physical version, and the cheaper? I've got no idea how the book industry works.

Cheers all and good reading.

ZDM

 

[OCD Geek]

My three adult siblings, my mom, my grandmother and I all share a small house together in order to save money. I don't really have a whole lot of space to myself here.

I have three shelves in a closet for my DVDs and Blu-rays. I go electronic only for novels, comics and music in order to save space. Unless there isn't an electronic option like with Babylon 5 novels.

 

[John Clark]

I went Kindle only for most of my (fiction) books a few years ago. It was mostly because of storage space (and taking enough books to keep me going on holiday).

 

[David Weller]

I prefer physical copies.

Storage is not a problem as once I have read a book i pass it on to the local charity shop.

I do use a Kindle when I go on holiday so I can take enough books with me.

 

[Kilana2]

I prefer physical copies.

Storage is not a problem as once I have read a book i pass it on to the local charity shop.

I do use a Kindle when I go on holiday so I can take enough books with me.

I don't read ebooks, I prefer physical books. Storage might be a problem one day as I collect the books....

 

[John Clark]

Back in the day with physical books, if I liked them, I tended to keep them as I frequently read them again. For the ones I wasn't quite so bothered about, those went to the charity stores.

With a house full of readers, the collection built up, hence the storage space issue.
We still have a large amount of books that I don't really expect to see ebook versions of.
As for preference between ebooks and physical, I do like both

I have to admit that I haven't actually tried any audible books recently. (I think the last was probably early 90s?)

 

[UncleRogi]

I collect older Trek novels, but its complete for the most part.
I have all novels from Destiny on in Kindle format.
I also have ALL my favorite novels on Kindle, 400 +, about 140 or so Trek.

I love my Kindle, but it sometimes seems that whomever transcribed a given title
doesn't understand English.

 

[thribs]

There’s no fun buying digital books. Physical always for me.
I only do audio if it’s in a audio play format.

 

[Reanok]

I buy Physical Star Trek books I prefer to read them. Or borrow them from the Library since they have alot of the Star Trek Miniseries I've been wanting to read.

 

[JD]

Morning all,

I have a question about how best to support the authors of these fantastic books. I've recently purchased a Kindle Oasis and am currently enjoying 'Disc: Desperate Hours' (75% in, don't ruin it for me ), and will be moving on to drastic measures soon.

I notice that the kindle version in Australia is significantly cheaper in Australia ($19.50AU vs. $7.99AU). Does it hurt the authors by not buying the physical version, and the cheaper? I've got no idea how the book industry works.

Cheers all and good reading.

ZDM

My guess would be that the same or close to the same amount of $$$ goes to the author either way. I think the writers on here have said that the majority of money from the books goes to the publisher involved with only a small fraction actually making it to the author, so I'm thinking most of the cut cost comes from the publisher's side rather than the author's.
I'm not sure about in Australia, but in the US most of the books that are significantly cheaper are the older books, so by the time they're marked down the author has probably already gotten the majority of the money they were going to get from the book.

 

[tomswift2002]

My guess would be that the same or close to the same amount of $$$ goes to the author either way. I think the writers on here have said that the majority of money from the books goes to the publisher involved with only a small fraction actually making it to the author, so I'm thinking most of the cut cost comes from the publisher's side rather than the author's.
I'm not sure about in Australia, but in the US most of the books that are significantly cheaper are the older books, so by the time they're marked down the author has probably already gotten the majority of the money they were going to get from the book.

The authors have also said that on Trek and tie-ins their royalties are nowhere near the amount they get from their own stories.

 

[BillJ]

Mass Market fiction? I buy ebooks. Reference books? I buy a physical copy.

 

[ZappaDanMan]

Mass Market fiction? I buy ebooks. Reference books? I buy a physical copy.

I'm the same, a ton of physical nursing and medical books, my one bedroom apartment wont take much to get full. E-books for the rest.

 

[rahullak]

E-books only for Trek so far. I recently gave away some of our older books and so there's shelf space. But I like having the Trek books whenever, wherever so I can read even if I get the odd 30 minutes wherever I'm going. Not possible to do with physical books.

 

[Daddy Todd]

For Star Trek novels, I buy the dead-tree version for the collection. To keep that copy pristine, I buy an e-book version to read. But since most of my reading time seems to get eaten up online, I also buy the audio-book version if it exists, to listen to in the car and at the gym.

Authors getting triple royalty — you’re welcome

(I used to buy two hard copy versions, one to collect, one to read. So I’ve got two copies of every Trek book up to mid-2011, when I got into e-books and e-readers.)

 

[Kilana2]

For Star Trek novels, I buy the dead-tree version for the collection. To keep that copy pristine, I buy an e-book version to read. But since most of my reading time seems to get eaten up online, I also buy the audio-book version if it exists, to listen to in the car and at the gym.

Authors getting triple royalty — you’re welcome

(I used to buy two hard copy versions, one to collect, one to read. So I’ve got two copies of every Trek book up to mid-2011, when I got into e-books and e-readers.)

I don't read ebooks, but often I buy the English and ther German version of a novel. So I own many of Kirsten Beyer's, Greg Cox' or David Mack's novels both in the original and in the translated version. I like it when the German publisher creates a new cover on top of that.

 

[Jinn]

So I own many of Kirsten Beyer's, Greg Cox' or David Mack's novels both in ther original and in the translated versions. I like it when the German publisher creates a new cover on top of that.

I'll second this. Especially the Kirsten Beyer Voyager novels.

 

[Kilana2]

I'll second this. Especially the Kirsten Beyer Voyager novels.

Even the original covers have improved considerably (see also the new Architects of Infinity cover). But the Cross Cult ones are something special, featuring the characters.

 

[Jinn]

Even the original covers have improved considerably (see also the new Architects of Infinity cover). But the Cross Cult ones are something special, featuring the characters.

I also really liked A Pocket Full of Lies's cover. Way better than Acts of Contrition.

 

[JD]

I have to confess, there've been a few times I've been tempted to get the Cross Cult versions of some of the Trek books just because the artwork is so good, but I don't read German, and I just can't bring myself to spend money on something I know I won't use.