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Old 10-21-2007, 01:16 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by ebookie View Post
So I hear you on this, however would you pay $99 if you also had to sign for a two year subscription to an electronic newspaper at $30/month ?

This was the model that cell phones used fairly effectively to jump start a desirable, but for many (I know most of you were born with cell phones in your crib but I was one of those old guys who knew I time when they didn't exist! ) unnecessary luxury. I remember my friends saying "Why carry around a bulky phone like that when anyone I want to talk to can easily page me and I can get back to them?" Phones were $1000 and pagers were $20.

So an electronic newspaper can share the burden with you, they will post you a paper (and yes it will have advertisements in it) and you get a cheap e-book that you can use for lots of stuff besides reading the paper. If their subscriber base is over 50,000 they can sell adds to make up the difference between your subscription fees and their costs.

--Chuck
nope. i didnt have a cell phone till my company gave me one either. i find them kind of tacky and burdensome. people have no manners when they are on the phone. now if i could get the magazines i read regularly at a discounted rate in electronic form i might change my tune, but news is easily accessible online and on the radio (which i listen to while at work pretty much all day) for free and i dont have the need or desire to carry it with me.
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