What kind of e-books do you buy online?

[Vault101]

there's no genre in particular that I would more likely buy in ebook for since I buy all my reading that way

though as someone (kind of) said there's a considerable market for self published erotica

I realize this may seem mostly low brow pulp stuff but my real world is pretty complicated. I like to lay back and enjoy "get out of your head" fiction.

I guess it depends on how you define "good" a good book is a good book weather its genre fiction or "high brow lit fic"

and of coarse there are comfort reads
case in point:

Well it varies but the largest concentration of ebooks and their accompanying audio books I have are David Weber books. Specifically The Honor Harrington series and it's off shoots, plus the Tales of Honor "Honorverse" comics.

probably since those books would be more available in ebook

I like the HH books but they are....a bit soap boxy

but yeah even within genre fiction I don't want to contemplate AI or dystopia or any of that bullshit, I just want some space adventure (especially after watching Jupiter Ascending the other night)

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Well it varies but the largest concentration of ebooks and their accompanying audio books I have are David Weber books. Specifically The Honor Harrington series and it's off shoots, plus the Tales of Honor "Honorverse" comics.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Hm ... most of the pdfs I buy are game related.

World of Darkness, mainly. But I always get the hardcover + pdf versions, because I love having the physical books. For all other things I usually just have physical books ... it's important to maintain an intellectual facade.

 

[fenrizz]

I'm all over the place really, but It's mostly stuff like Exploding the Phone: The Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell [http://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Untold-Teenagers-Outlaws/dp/080212061X/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424701306&sr=1-12&keywords=blue+box+bell] and Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age [http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/dp/0887309895/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424701470&sr=1-2&keywords=xerox].

Can't really get the kinds of books without ordering from abroad, so my Kindle is the obvious solution.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I work at a bookstore. The other day a woman and her little girl were deciding what to buy from the kiddie section. The little girl was trained to turn down certain books because "we have them on the iPad". Her mom kept on asking her if she was sure, didn't she want that Wizard of Oz book she had been reading for the past 10 minutes on the stairs? The girl kept saying no, no, no, we have it on iPad. And yet she kept reading, reading, reading, weighing the book on her lap and flicking the pages back and forth.

That's why I don't buy e-books. Even if I had them, I would be inevitably drawn by the allure of the actual thing.