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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
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).
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I don't think that would be a barrier. People are still developing disposable DVD disks that self destruct after watching. And as the ebook publishers keep telling us, printing and distributing paper books only adds a few pence to the cost of a book ...