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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Lets say you are looking for an ebook reader in the USA. You have the 505 and the Kindle. Now, you go an look at the prices for both devices. $100 difference. Just purchase 10 bestsellers using the Kindle and the price has just become cheaper then the 505 based on the amount you've just saved. Buy even more and the saving make the Kindle cost even less. Face it, Amazon is going to win if you look at it from an economic standpoint.
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Which makes me think: people who don't read a lot of "best-sellers" might not be very interested by the Kindle. I'm rather eclectic, sometimes a bestseller might draw my interest, but certainly not if I have to purchase a DRM-laden ebook for as much as the hardcover book I can hold in my hand, keep for years and years, or give away or resell if I'm not interested after all!
And I wonder about the sanity of publishers who sell ebooks at the same price than ordinary books, even thought they don't have printing, handling and shipping costs with electronic texts... A better business model would be something along the lines of BAEN Books, with ebooks a about the same price as a paperback or less. Here in France, we have
Eons, another publisher of sci-fi books who sells ebooks for about a third of their hardcover editions.
The ebook market has a lot of maturing and evolving to do.