Very few of the books I read are 'dated' such that they require immediate reading. Sci-Fi, mystery, philosophy, auto-biography -- all can mature to reasonable prices. There are so many great classics out there for free that I'll never run out, so with rare exception, there are no books that I absolutely 'must' purchase at book store prices as an eBook.
As I posted elsewhere, eBooks do not provide the value of pBooks in terms of flexibility, durability, physical presence and obsolescence, so we should not be paying for something we don't receive from a digital copy. It's up to the market place to dictate terms, not the publishers.
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