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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Reading the Newsweek article & the quote from the Penguin guy Amazon isn't getting any special discount from them & is likely offering the $9.99 price as a loss leader.
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If that's true, IMO Amazon has made a mistake. They should sell the Kindle as a loss leader, and make money on the content.
It's not something that's "cool" like an iPod, and Amazon is already set up better on the content distribution side than Apple ever was (and I still resist polluting my PC with iTunes to this day).
Aside from that (and assuming no one actually pirates eBooks from torrents or Usenet
) I think the Kindle is a smart concept because it focuses more on content... so it'd be worth $399 to me if only the eBooks were cheaper... maybe $9.99 for new releases is not too bad, but for anything I would otherwise read in paperback, gotta be less than $5. Additionally, I'd want to feel that I'd be able to get the eBooks I want for the foreseeable future.
In that case, I don't mind DRM (though not a fan of it at all), though I wouldn't want not to be able to read my own PDF files as well.