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Originally Posted by nanotube
one of my friends did ooh and ahh when she saw mine but refused to get one because of the price. But when i asked what she'd think a reasonable price, she couldnt decide.
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I'm a believer in the Gillette school of "Give 'em the razor and sell 'em the blade."
I imagine that it will be a decade or more before eBook readers become so cheap that price doesn't matter. I remember seeing my first pocket calculator in 1972. It was LED, could only add, subtract, multiply and divide, and cost as I recall $99. By 1985, they were so cheap that I received one at a corporate function as a party favor!
But in the meantime, I think that the big boys like Amazon and Sony with DRM links to bookstores to should give a store credit in the amount of the cost of the book.
I think that $300 for the Kindle is too high, considering that the typical Amazon eBook is only discounted a couple of bucks. But if the Kindle came with a $300 Amazon eBook store credit, I think most people would find it much more reasonable.