I have a Nook.  Actually, I have two, a Simple Touch with Glowlight (what an awkward name) and a Nook HD+ that I got for my birthday last year (thank you Mom and Dad!).  I held out on the ereader revolution for a long, long time.  In fact, I can honestly say that these are the very first ereaders I’ve ever owned strictly for the purpose of downloading ebooks.  I consider this very different from reading things like fanfics online, but I digress.

The reason I even asked for the ereaders was simple.  A series that I was following and in love with had started to put out mini novels that took place within the world of the main novels, but they were only available in ebook format.  This royally pissed me off, because I felt like I was being forced to buy an ereader (this is also before I discovered Adobe Digital Editions and the Apps, but I digress) when I really.  Didn’t.  Want.  One.  I ranked it up there with all the Blu-Ray discs and how it sometimes feels like we’re being forced to buy a Blu-Ray player because the DVDs no longer come with all the awesomely cool extras that the Blu-Rays do.  But again, I digress.

So there I was, a happy new ereader owner who promptly hit the Barnes and Noble website to be confronted with something rather horrific.  Unless they have quite the sale going on, and it does happen, a lot of the ebooks that also have a print version cost the exact same amount as their physical counterpart.  I still wonder WTF is up with that.  I know that, unless they’re self published, authors have no real control over the cost of their ebook titles, but if I’m going to be spending $7 – $27 bucks on a book, I want the physical version with all it’s weight in my hands, thank you very much.  I’ll be the first to claim ignorance on how big publishing houses go about publishing the ebook version of their print titles, but I would think that printing something on paper would cost more and take more time than formatting something digitally and uploading it.

I would have figured that ebooks would have cost much less than their print versions, but I guess that’s not the case.  Phhhbbbbbttttttttt.