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Originally Posted by GhostHawk
Articles like that tend to forget all about the large amount of public domain ebooks that are available at manybooks.net or Google.
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The article did mention the Gutenberg.org site.
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Originally Posted by RyanMWilliams
Many of the ebooks coming out from the 'big six' publishers are expensive, as much or more than the paperbacks. Part of that is release schedule, if the ebooks are coming out at the same time as the hardcover they don't want to set the price too low because they're worried about hardcover sales.
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It makes sense that book publishers are more concerned about paper book sales than eBooks. After all, eBook readers are sold by book distributors, not publishers. I guess this is the same kind of transition the music industry went through with the availability of MP3s.
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Originally Posted by RyanMWilliams
And, with many devices like Nook or Sony's, you can also check ebooks out of libraries too.
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The library system here doesn't loan eBooks, and they don't have any plans to. I spoke to the Technical Director for the library system, and she said the library budget has been cut every year, and they don't have the funds to introduce any new media.