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Maybe it's the Yuppie in me, but I think people are too fixated on e-book hardware cost.
Question, are people going to buy e-books?
The strength of the gadget market has been on the back of pre-owned (you have already bought the audio CD, for example) software, or piracy. If one looks at it software, be it music, video, or e-books as a free cost, then the cost of the gadget is the driving factor. If you are going to buy the software, then the cost of the software, over time, is going to dwarf the cost of the hardware anyway. If I buy 100 books at $5 a book, the $500 dollars I spend is much more than the cost of the gadget. And the more books, or higher priced the e-books, the less the gadget cost matters.
And the more important it is to back up and protect your software investment...
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