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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
The TV analogy is interesting, but it breaks down a bit when I think it over. Once I have a TV, and a "subscription" to a cable service, then the content is essentially free.
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There is, of course, a huge amount of out-of-copyright content available free of charge.
One of my interests is 19th century novels. The huge benefit of eBooks for me is that I can download
thousands of such books, completely free, from sites like PG, and, in fact, they are far
easier to obtain that way than as paper books, since most of them are long out of print. Eg, consider the English writer of adventure stories, Sir Henry Rider Haggard: go into any bookstore today and you'll probably find two of his books - "King Solomon's Mines" and "She". Go to PG, however, and you'll find his complete works (about 65 novels), all completely free.