I would pay up to $10 without hesitation. Any more and I'd probably stop to think about it.

Now, THIS is an original strip. I enjoyed it greatly.

Now, about the digital book... considering the paperbacks sell for about 10, I'd gladly pay 5 for a digital version (assuming it's a hi-res PDF that I can print myself).

I hope "just curious" is just an expression, and you're actually considering this.

I would probably pay about $8 for a purely digital version, and maybe $15 ($20 on impulse) for an embodied ebook. (Warning: Somewhat NSFW imagery present on other pages of site.)

$9.99..

oh, and colonel sanders.. awesome!

I would damage my sword-cane for a digital copy of your book!

I think you meant to say that you implied that Rick was a fool.

$9.99. $11.99 if there are good bonus features. $18.99 if both books are included.

OVER 9,000 pennies.

Rick looks like he is wearing a Colonel Sanders costume. Sanders was a southern gentleman I guess...

I think you implied that Rick is a fool, and he inferred it.

The top of your cane makes me think it might be one of those totally unfashionable ones with a platform at the bottom with four feet. Which, come to think of it, would be the best disguised sword-cane ever. No one expects an ugly medical quad-cane sword-cane!

I think $5 for the book would be a lock. You might have gotten more, but you sabotaged yourself with this strip, because you got me thinking about that Rutger Hauer movie Blind Fury. So maybe I can find it on DVD or iTunes or somewhere cheap. So I need a couple bucks for that. It's your own fault.

$NZ10. Are you wearing a bathrobe Scott? it looks a bit long for a smoking jacket...

I think I'd be willing to pay $5

As a kid I always thought sword-canes were the coolest things in the world and wanted one in the worst way. I inspected lots of canes but never found one with a sword. I'm happy to see they're still cool. And I'm really happy to see that only the cool canes have swords.

Excellent strip! The ones where Rick gets half a point in are the BEST and funniest, imho. And the medical cane v. truly awesome cane/subtle plug for masking tape mummy contest was truly awesome!

I would pay you 1,200 for a digital copy of one of your books...in yen.

I like the regular paper books.

Would your book also be gluten-free? Because I could only get it if was free of the gluten.

But seriously, some successful self-published ebook authors have said that $2 is the sweet spot for an ebook. We, you're loyal fans, would no doubt pay more. But you may want to take that $2 figure into account if you want to cast a wider net, like trying to sell it on Amazon.com.

I probably wouldn't buy a digital version at all, sorry -- I generally read ebooks on my Kindle or my phone, both of which are great for text but really bad for anything graphical.

I wouldn't if there was a printed version available. Easier to keep near the toilet.

Digital copy? I'd probably never get one in the first place unless it was free.
I'm much too old-fashioned, I prefer books of the sharp, fragile and highly flammable variant. Kicking back on the couch to read with an overheating laptop in the lap just isn't the same. :(

NGAAA!!!

Truthfully, I'm a techno-luddite (despite being thirty-something and working in IT my entire career). You've heard of late adopters? I'm a +5yr adopter. I probably won't have an e-reader of any kind until they're built into Tamagotchi and come in a cereal box. Or a kind soul gets me one as a gift.

Say, have you heard of this band The Beatles? I think they show promise.

Scott, a true gentleman needs a sword-cane that isn't lame.

"How much would you pay for a digital, DRM-free version of one of my books?"

Agree with one of the above answers, $10 for an instant, impulse purchase. I'd probably go up to $20 if given a little while to think about it, and $30-$40 for a 'I have disposable cash, why not treat myself with an irrational but enjoyable purchase' the next time I feel rich.

Also I had a sword-cane (well, a cane) but it was damaged in a dispute. If only you had released this strip earlier.

I'd definitely pay $5-8 for a high-quality digital version.

I would gladly pay 10 dollars for the privilege of reading a book with such comics as this in it.

I would pay both nothing, and yet everything! Such is the mystery of the sword-cane!

All of my dollars (so, like, 15).

Awesomw work, as always, as for a digital version, maybe $7-$10

Anyone else hear this in their head with British accents?

...PAY for digital content?!

I disagree with the very notion, sir.

"I implied" or "you inferred" (although it is a bit ambiguous. You could make a case for "I inferred," but it's awkward.)

And $0. I am a cheap, cheap bastard.

Definitely $5; would do $10. For that matter - DONATE; heck it would probably cost me over $10 to get the book shipped to me (I live in Canada), so donating money here and buying an electonic copy would be WAY cheaper...

I'd pay about ten bucks to be honest.

Oh, and the Prisoner WAS Infinitely Superior to Space:1999

I would say that depends on the value of the dollar by the time I have paid off my student loans and/or gotten a real job. In current money, I might be convinced to pay some $5-10 if I were slightly incapacitated.

@Frax - I would argue that it could be the beginning of a new kind of cane-related weaponry: THE FOUR-HEADED TENNIS BALL MACE-CANE!!!

I would pay $5.

Haha crazy coincidence talking about The Prisoner, I was just reading this comic today: http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2009/11/11/how-to-get-amazing-kicks-from-something-normal-people-will-n.html

I'm a purist and buy them all on dead trees and leave them in the bathroom to corrupt houseguests. If I were going to get one online, maybe $5 tops, considering I could just come to this site and read them for free as long as I had the electronic gadget out.