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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
One thing that would save real world book shops, and also the second hand market, would be selling ebooks on physical media -- memory stick, SD card, CDROM, etc. I can't really see the publishers wanting to do that, mainly because of the second hand market. But if they did, it would mean extra sales from people who like to put things on shelves, or buy gifts for other people.
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The cost of the hardware would detract from this model's usefulness... people think ebooks are too expensive now, and you would add the cost of storage hardware. Not to mention adding a lot of hardware that will eventually end up landfilled (since you can copy the book onto a hard drive and ditch the dongle).