When an ebook costs over 90% of the price of a hardcover, am I going to buy the ebook, which I can&#x27;t lend, resell, or give away, or the ebook, which can only be read by me? The answer is simple, I&#x27;m going to buy whatever the cheapest physical book is.<p>In Canada, with a Kobo, buying from Chapters&#x2F;Indigo, the trade paperback is often <i>cheaper</i> than the ebook. This is my situation, and it means that the only time I buy an ebook is if I&#x27;m extremely motivated to read a book <i>right now</i> and I can&#x27;t get it digitally from the library. If I had a situation where I was travelling and extremely space-constrained I might pay the premium for an ebook, but that hasn&#x27;t happened to me yet.<p>All that doesn&#x27;t mean I don&#x27;t read ebooks, but that I don&#x27;t buy them. The ebooks I read come from the library, (I&#x27;m a member of two libraries with great ebook selections), or are classics from Project Gutenberg or similar.