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I think Charlie, like a lot of people, may be attaching too much significance to the dedicated e-book reader in this equation. As someone else in these forums pointed out, dedicated readers are essentially a luxury item... they are not required to read an e-book, and plenty of e-books were read before they were created. E-books have enough things going for them, and won't be hindered by the lack of a cheap dedicated reader.
I largely agree, finding the proper selling model and accepting an amount of inevitable piracy/theft/loss, instead of futile attempts to lock e-books down at hardback prices, is paramount.
Personally, I wouldn't call them disposable, any more than I'd call a paperback disposable... a good book is a good book, whatever the medium, and worth keeping. But I suppose if all you want to do is read it and delete it, at least you're not filling up the landfills...
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