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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I'd be interested in seeing THAT sale.
You've long had the inability to read your B&N books on a Sony device! Now, buy a Simple Touch USB Fingerprint Scanner (TM) so that you won't be able to read your books anywhere except on your finger coded device!! 
I mean, maybe one person on earth would buy it. Maybe.  |
Some people would buy it if it were pitched right. "New: Harry Potter ebooks on the ThumbReader 2012!" And the sales pitch would imply that you just go online & buy books, and not mention that it works about like the RocketBook system: plug *device* online, and buy *through it*, instead of the standard "go online, download to hard drive" system.
And people would be happy until they get a Kindle SuperDeluxe for a birthday and want to read the second half of the series on that instead.
I think some hardware can be pushed on the public, and some can't, and this is one of the "can't" variety. Like those little "cat" scanners that read advertising barcodes... too obviously a case of "let's inflict annoying extra complicated steps onto the end user for corporate convenience!"