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In my opinion, the ebook market is dead in the water until publishers bite the bullet and drastically reduce the prices. They already know to do make the books uncopiable -- see Google books, Amazon etc. where pages (usually only samples) can be displayed but not copied. I suppose the only problem then is to make them downloadable (to ereaders) without making them infinitely reproducible. Short of that, they could figure out some scheme to charge for reading online. In any case, the bottom line is that the cost of reading the stuff -- in digital form -- MUST COME DOWN. Pricing ebooks like paper books is quite simply unjustifiable and it will not stand.
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