Question of the Week: Hardback Books?

It’s time for Question of the Week, designed to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics.

This week’s question: do you buy any hardback books? No wrong answers, obviously.

I ask this question because I was reading an article about how for many traditionally published authors hardbacks used to be the primary source of royalties, but nowadays for many authors that has been superseded by audiobooks. Since I’m indie, my main source of revenue has always been ebooks.

Anyway, I do buy hardbacks, but very, very selectively. Like, if Timothy Zahn, Jim Butcher, and a few other select authors I’ve been reading for decades have a new hardcover, I’ll buy it. Otherwise, it’s ebooks or paperback. For nonfiction books, I’m a bit less choosy – if I read, say, a historical ebook and like it, I might get the hardback to keep as a future reference book.

-JM