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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Actually, many of these are seriously offered for sale. Specialized or academic books, have a very limited market. However the people in that market, really want the book. I spent $50+ on a ebook about pre Iron age warfare in the Near East and have quite a few hardback books that are in the $100+ range.
For people in a narrow niche like this, ebooks can be a true god send since so many of these type books go out of print quite rapidly. The only downside is that illustrations, pictures and maps don't tend to show up very well in ebooks.
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This begs me to ask you something I hadn't considered before. Do you worry about the long-term survival of an ebook that you shelled out hundreds of dollars for? I'm thinking DRM and also just the lifetime of any digital format which I would guess would be on the order of years instead of many decades for a hardback. I understand the convenience but if it was me I think I would pause for a moment before pulling that trigger. Does it concern you at all?