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Originally Posted by Rebecca_06
Honestly, I think e-books still tend to be pretty expensive, at least the mainstream stuff.
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I was thinking older books, often public domain--my husband knows a few older guys who've gotten ebook readers and are devouring classics they'd always wanted to read, never made time for, and just didn't get around to checking out from libraries. They're amazed at Gutenberg.
And for anyone who likes genre fiction--science fiction, romance, horror--there's endless stores with high-quality low-price ebooks.
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I can definitely see how the Kindle would go unused if the person likes to read the stuff that's cheaper as a used paperback than it is as an e-book. A lot of the cheap e-books are the older classics and the self-published works, which isn't everybody's thing.
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I love the self-published freebies! Which, if you like them, are great; and if you don't, are just pages and pages of listings to skip over. (I love having access to effectively infinite
totally unfiltered content. But yes, not everyone's going to have an interest.)
So yes--I can see someone getting a Kindle, checking the prices of ebooks at Amazon, saying "WTF? These books are $3 at the local bargain used-book store" or "my cousin will give me the hardcover for free when she's done with it, or I can pay $14.95 now? I'll wait." Someone who mostly wants to read currently trendy pbooks in digital form is not going to find the Kindle a terrific bargain, and it's not going to inspire a non-reader--someone who reads a bestseller every few months--to become an avid reader.