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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
SD cards are pretty small. I can't really see many people just throwing them away rather than re-selling them anyway.
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You're assuming that people will want to keep piles of SD cards around to store individual books... cards that could hold all of the books in a collection. No: Once people find themselves sitting on a few-score tiny little SD cards, they will download the books to another drive, and landfill the cards.
Publishers will not want to see a reselling market started, since it will be too easy to copy the files from the card and resell it. This is why you won't see an SD card market.
Tying digital files to physical hardware is a step backward, IMO. We need to develop ways to reliably sell the file to an individual, and make sure that person doesn't make any number of copies for resell or giveaway. That can be done on the software end, we don't need resource-hungry physical media to do that.