Thread: Publishers still missing the point on e-book prices
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Old 01-04-2012, 05:42 PM   #587
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
Unlike with phone or tablet apps, I am sure that nobody fills their new reader with new books right away.
Mostly, nobody fills their reader with books, ever. Even the older, smaller ones dealing with internal memory only can hold a ridiculous number of books. Once you get into memory cards, you have the ability to carry enough books to crash the OS or at least make them totally unnavigable.

With an average novel at about 500kb (with cover art), a 2-gb card can carry about 4000 ebooks. Without cover art, they can be 200kb each... 10,000 book library on one small card. And that's without getting into short stories at 75kb each.

(Sorry; just tangenting. Not relevant to discussion. I'm just constantly amazed at the sheer amount of TEXT I can carry around in my purse these days.)
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