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Originally Posted by pietvo
That's just plainly wrong. I just measured the storage of my ebooks on my MacBook: it is 2GB. I haven't paid more than $200 for it and they are all legal. And I don't have the complete works of Shakespeare and Dickens, just one or two of each. And they aren't all old works either. There are more ways to legally acquire ebooks than buying overpriced items.
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The average size of an ebook is somewhere between 300K and 1MB (say 0.5MB to make maths easy). Your 2GB would equate to approx 4000 books. This means you paid $0.05 on average for each of your books. Obviously if you just read pre 1920's literature or modern SciFi / Romance novels from mostly unknown authors then you can get your books for free and this would reduce the total cost considerably. If you want to read anything approaching a best seller then the cost per ebook is going to be way higher than $0.05.
PDF files containing lots of images will be larger than my average figure above but these aren't typical of what's on most ereaders. I guess if you have lots of graphic novels then that would fill 2GB quite quickly. Most books however are TXT, EPUB or MOBI and these are reasonably small. I can't find any details on an average price for a modern ebook but $7 seems close. So to fill your 2GB with 4000 books, at $7 each, it comes to around $28000.
I'm generalising a lot and there will always be exceptions - you're obviously an exception
