Curious on statistics of those who purchase on Kindle

[misslja]

I'm wondering how many people pay for downloading Kindle books.  And what is the highest dollar limit you would pay for a book.

[NightGoat]

I pay for most of the content on my Kindle 3/KB. On my DX, it's mostly pdf I had found from years back and here-and-there.

I set my dollar limit to $9.xx, however I've violated this rule a couple of time and went as high as $12.xx for books I really, really, really wanted.
Mind you, when I go $12.xx I scrutinize the ever livin' beegeezuz out of the book before I buy and often times pass them by at that price.

I will purchase quicker however, at $9.xx (hint to the publishers and their agency model.  )

[lori_piper]

I do. I have no hard limit, but I try to stay under $9. That said, I paid $17 for the Steve Jobs bio in October, so it really depends on the book.

[Hadou]

I pay for a majority of the stuff I have on the Kindle.  And...the most I've spent on a single item was $6 or so.  I can't see myself going much higher.  I just keep a watch on the ones I want to get and take advantage of various offers and promotions to get discounts.

[_Sheila_]

I have paid for virtually everything.  I have no limit.  I didn't buy my Kindle to save money, I bought it for convenience.  I have never returned a book - even though I've not been able to finish a few.  The ones I've not finished have been by big names.  Example:  Shania Twain's book.  The formatting is terrible and the book just didn't work for me.  The last couple of Janet Evanovich's books.  I'll try it again when I'm in another mood and see what happens.

Sheila

[KindleChickie]

Everything I read comes from legal means, it is either free from author or other sires like amazon, Smashwords, etc, or I buy it.

My visa metrics tell me I average $200 a month for kindle digital content.  I almost never pay over $10.  

But all that is changing.  No more money to Amazon.  I will read what I have purchased already or try buying elsewhere.  As a matter of fact, I have taken my credit card off my amazon account just so I don't forget.

[sparklemotion]

I have paid for the majority of the things on my kindle. The most I have paid for an e-book is 31.00. I don't really have a price limit, but in general I prefer not to spend more than, say, 12.00.  However, I have and will pay more if I really want to read the book. On average I seem to spend about 10.00 a book, I'd say.

[sparklemotion]

I have no limit.  I didn't buy my Kindle to save money, I bought it for convenience. 

Same here. I bought my kindle keyboard for two reasons - convenience and to cut down on clutter. I'm something of a minimalist and I cannot stand clutter. The amount of physical books I had was simply becoming too much and they take up so much space. I try not to buy DTB's anymore. I will only buy them now if I *really* want to read them and they are not available in e-book format.

[J.R.Mooneyham]

I've bought quite a few Kindle ebooks. Would have bought more too, if only the ones I'd wanted offered a Kindle version (a surprising number of books still don't).

I'm unsure what the highest price is I've paid for a Kindle ebook; but it might be as high as $14.99 or so. I know I've bought plenty in the $9.99 through $12.99 range. Of course, I do prefer paying less where possible. But as I'm awfully picky, I often can't get the ones I want cheap (at least not through legitimate channels, I suppose).

[BTackitt]

I've got a few levels of payment as I read mainly indies.
New to me/new author/first book, no more than $2.99
if I like their books, I will buy pretty much ALL others from them, as long as the price is not above about $5 or $6.

I have two Trade6 pubbed authors that I will pay about $10 for, but only because of the time I have already invested in their series.

[Seleya]

I pay for everything (excluding books from Project Gutenberg and those I find for free on authors' sites or Amazon).
While the cheaper the better, I have no threshold amount: if I want to read it I buy it. I'm more likely to pay let's say 12 dollars or above for the newest book of one of my favorite authors than to pay 0.99 for someone I don't know with mixed or no reviews (if it sounds intiguing I download a sample).

[Dragle]

I guess I'm different--I pay for very few books.  For fiction reading, I usually get free ebooks or library ebooks (though not many are available yet), and now the Prime lending library books, since I rarely would read those more than once.  Newer books I still check out from the library.  What I pay for are the books I want to keep, like reference, educational, or fiction that I would want to read multiple times.  

Now that I have the Fire, I find that I feel the same way about Apps.  With the free apps of the day, so far I have only paid for one app--the Wifi file explorer.  

[nacnac]

This thread has been an eye-opener. I haven't paid for anything (yet), but have only taken the free books released by Amazon to read. I first had the kindle app on my iphone, but got a kindle later. Now with Amazon offering so many free books each day, I have way more than I'll ever read, but at least I also will never be bored!

[Aenea]

I'm about 50/50 with free and paid. I won't pay more than $10.00 for an ebook and I don't even do that very often.

[Xopher]

I would say about 20% of the books I've bought are not free. There is a lot of good free content that I have found since getting my K1. Quite a few of the books I've bought were to continue reading a series. For me to buy something else, it would be something I really felt the need to read right away.

One of my favorite books I got for free was "The Assassin's Apprentice" by Robin Hobb. After thoroughly enjoying that book, I purchased the rest of the Farseer trilogy, the Liveship Traders series, and the Tawny Man series. That one free book ended up with me purchasing eight more books from that author. I might not have ever looked at any of those books without finding the first one for free.

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[Jan Strnad]

I paid $9.99 once. Just once. Generally, I'm in the under-$5 category.

[JScott]

It really depends on the book--how much I want to read it and it's length but probably not more that $10.

[ak rain]

Highest 12$ or so usually known and wanted
Quite a few 6$ to 9$ after sample or recommends
Lots free

Like others have said I have kindle for convinience

I have slowed down on  free as I can't seem to get samples on free and my tbr list is high.
Sylvia

[Carolyn62]

I pay for a lot of my books. I think carefully before spending more than $10, I have to really want it.

[Kathy]

I download some free books but most of my books are bought.  I don't have a limit. I didn't buy it to save money. I was running out of room for new books and I travel a lot so it is easier than hauling around a bunch of books.

[The Hooded Claw]

I got some freebie books, but paid for most.  I dislike paying more than $9.99, and try to stay below that for fiction.  I've gone over $9.99 perhaps eight or ten times.

[PhillyGuy]

As a matter of fact, I have taken my credit card off my amazon account just so I don't forget.

Does your @kindle.com address still work? On the K3 owned by one of my sons, it wouldn't work until we put on a credit card.

Now I guess I should answer the OP. If you own Amazon stock, you may not want to read any further  
 
In 16 months of K3 ownership, I have never bought a book for it (and, I hasten to add, never broken DRM). We only live 2 blocks from the public library, which has a fair selection of current books (even though I have found Project Gutenberg to have a lot more good old ones). I am using public library Kindle borrowing, even though no renewals isn't cool. There already is one long biography I timed out on and now await a second loan. I probably could get it in paper at the library, but I was at a good stopping point.

As closely as I can gauge, which isn't very, my Kindle usage is 1/3 newspaper articles, 1/3 magazine articles, and 1/3 books. (And then there are the text-heavy blogs, like http://baselinescenario.com/ and http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/. Maybe I was counting that with magazine articles when I came up with the fractions.)


Actually, we do buy a lot of stuff from Amazon.com, starting with dog food, and I subscribe to their New York Times Latest News Blog. As soon as my paper Atlantic Monthly subscription runs out, I will switch to the Kindle.

[Meka]

I really don't have a limit, but I think my bank account prefer's the free and dollar deals I have gotten lately...

[Atunah]

Although I do get some free books, only if they are in genre/genres I like to read, I haven't read many of those freebies yet. Still behind on those. So I pay for most I read. Since library lending has come to Kindle I have gotten a lot that way. But I still buy most books.

My max to pay is 7.99. I only read fiction books though. I only paid more than that, 9.99 once in the 3 years I had my kindle and I prefer to pay less than 7.99. Many books I buy I buy when the publishers put out sales for .99-2.99. Backlists also. Then there are the publishers who don't price their stuff in the 7.99 rage, but more like 4.99-5.99.

I will not pay 12.99 or anything like that for a kindle books. Never have, never will. Even the 9.99 will not be repeated. I have 2000 books on my virtual to be read list, so I'll find something else if its over my limit. Or see if its at the library in ebook.

[KTaylor-Green]

I buy most of mine. And some of the free ones I have downloaded have introduced me to some great new authors. I really don't have a price limit. I just buy what I want to read. My kindle is a great convenience to me as I live in a rural area and I have been an avid reader for over 50 years.