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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Does anyne here remember the TI-994a computer? Texas Instruments sold it at a loss and was hoping the peripherals/software would make up for it. That did not work and the TI-994a stopped being sold. If Amazon is doing the same with their ebooks, then you can expect Amazon to one day stop selling them.
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Texas Instruments actually sold this unit for $525.00 when it first came out (and at far from a loss). The rarer TI-99 sold for a whopping $1,100.00. TI only dropped the pricing much later when other computer companies began mass-producing low priced competitive machines (i.e. Commodore International). I personally believe that Amazon, as well as other booksellers, will sell more electronic books in the future, rather than less.
For a more detailed history behind the eventual price reduction of the TI-99/4A see the article at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99