IMHO the problem is not the price of the reader, but the price of the books. If e-books would be priced in the order of $1 a piece while paperbacks cost $6 and Hardbound $20, everybody who reads more than occasionally would buy a reader and save a lot of money. But if the e-book costs $5.99 the math does not work very well.
The other problem is the availability of e-books. My wife buys books in the order $1500 a year, virtually none of them are available as e-books, so she does not even own an e-reader.
I'd really like the price for e-books drop down to the point where authors and publishers are paid a fair price and we don't have to kill trees to read and I'd like to see books published as e-books FIRST, then as paperback and if really worthwhile as hardcover.
Obviously that also goes and even more so for Magazines and Newspapers.
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