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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
No one reasonable is asking for ebook prices to plummet...
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Actually, ebooks (like digital music) have been the subject of micropayment concepts for years. In an abundance economy, the possibility of reducing the cost of a book to a few cents, thereby increasing sales by a presumed factor of 1000 or more, has been debated often. So far, no one has been able to make it work. But I'm not positive that it wouldn't, given an easy-to-use micropayment transaction infrastructure.
(Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if some segment of the porn industry has been able to make it work, but lack of "legitimacy" has kept it from moving beyond porn. Porn is like that.)