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Originally Posted by HarryT
I agree, Richard; it's all a matter of personal value. For me, £8 is about the price of a very cheap take-away pizza. I value a book, which will last me a lifetime, more highly than I do the ephemeral pleasure of the pizza. Of course I'd be happy if it were £4 rather than £8, but, nonetheless, if it were a book that I knew that I'd enjoy, I'd probably buy it. We all have to make our own judgements in these matters.
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No offense, but based on your list of devices, it also seems that you have a great deal of money. Not everyone is as fortunate.
I personally haven't been able to fit a "cheap take-away pizza" into my budget for quite some time now. I get three meals out of a $5 frozen pizza.
Different people have different budgets. At least in the case of the Kindle, part of its appeal (and initial marketing) was that e-reading would be cheaper than physical books (thanks to reduced production costs and no taxing of the books as "assets"). Instead, they are priced higher, much, much higher than used physical books.