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Originally Posted by Alisa
I think over time my Kindle will at least be a break-even proposition for me financially with the number of books I buy. Part of it is the low price on new releases and all the free classics, something readily apparent when looking at the ebook market. The other part of it was not something I truly realized when I decided to buy the Kindle. The free samples keep me from buying books I don't end up reading. I hadn't really thought about how much money I was wasting on books I didn't end up liking until I got the Kindle.
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Not to be annoying, but you have to consider that once the Kindle expires - and who knows, 2 years is probably expected to last, maybe up to 5, but for more you have to be really lucky - you have to buy another one to read your ebooks unless you dedrm them.
Or Amazon allows you to change formats if they do a newer Kindle-thingy with a different drm. It may happen, but the history of drm is not optimistic on that and since for now each e-book format is a different book in the eyes of the publishers, I would not bet on that.
And regarding samples, well it's really easy to get them either online or browse in the store. I've bought 70+ books e or p this year, and I sampled most of them before easily, even when I ordered them from the UK not being available here, and you can almost always find excerpts online, sometimes a chapter, sometimes much more...
So for me the argument that Kindle or Sony or any other e-book device saves money is not that convincing, at least if you buy e-books. But while 770 is my main reading device, I started using the Sony more now that is summer and I do some reading outside, and if Kindle would have a promotion like Sony had and come down to 50$, or even 100$, maybe when Kindle 2 is prepared, I would buy one too the way I did the 500.