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Originally Posted by vigna04
I'm not surprised... their margin is probably huge from the Kindle. Remember when the first Kindle released and was sold for $359ish?? A LOT of people bought it at that price still.
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Like me.
Because I saw the utility of a book that could be a bunch of my books, and also be books I hadn't even bought yet.
A book that could be any of the Project Gutenberg classics *for free*.
A book that included a dedicated research assistant that would promptly present me with a compilation of how many times a given word or phrase occurred in each of my books, and what was written around it in each place. (If only it would do that with science paper PDFs.)
A book that could access the web, if slowly and clunkily, without computer, ethernet or wifi.
A magic book.
I love physical books; my shelves are full of them. But hey, who wouldn't want a magic book?
Yeah, I paid 400$ for it. I thought about it for months--that's a lot of money for me. But it was *totally* worth the price.
Of course I'm glad they're cheaper now. And smaller and quicker and the screens are better. But there were very good reasons to buy it when it first came out. Which was why it sold out before the first one shipped and stayed sold out for months, if I recall.