Ebook vs. print

Now that I have a Kindle (in addition to a Jetbook Lite) I find I'd usually rather read the ebook than the print. Thus it is very annoying when I find a book I want to read and its not available in ebook format. (Or is way too expensive). For example I started An Unmistakable Rogue by Annette Blair and am enjoying it very much. Decided to see if I could get it for my Kindle. It was never released in electronic format, and can't even find a scanned copy. Very irritating. Guess I'll just have to keep reading that paper back.

And then we have Insatiable by Morgan Hawke, which I am reading. Great book! But the ebook is almost as much, (more so, on one site) than the paper back. Ridiculous! So I'll just keep reading the paper back (which I didn't buy new). If it was $4 I'd have bought it already. Amazon has a lot of good Samhain titles for $4.40. Why can't other publishers allow their books to be sold for that price? I can deal with that. I can't deal with $8+ for an ebook. Not when I can get the paperback for 1 PBS credit, which is about $2.50. The author/publisher gets nothing from me that way, now do they? And they never will if they keep putting their ebooks out for that much money.

I trade (from 3 sites) and rent (from booksfree), and use the library, and the author gets nothing from me. I would gladly fork over $4.40 or less for a full length, quality ebook. I have done so with books by Lorelei James, and other Samhain titles. More than that? Not going to happen. I'll just keep looking for those illegal copies if the ebooks cost too much. Or the other legal ways in which I get books, and the publishers get nothing from me. Or the very rare occasional times which I will spend more than that, and buy the print copy.