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Originally Posted by rlauzon
If you went to the average person and said:
You have 2 choices.
1) Pay, up front, for $400, an eBook reader, then pay $10 per eBook.
Your eBook reader can fail at any time and may render your purchased eBooks unreadable. You cannot buy used books nor can you borrow books from your friends. Oh, and Amazon is keeping track of what books you read when you use their service.
2) Continue with the current process - where books might cost more, but they might cost less. But you get to buy used books and borrow books from your friends. And no one keeps track of what books you read.
Guess which one they will pick.
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Very well put and encapsulating why the latest quarter e-book sales were 25M $ compared to 7-8B$ for print books.