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Originally Posted by Laurens
E-books prices are not coming down any time soon. (Not Sony's fault, as it's the publishers who set the prices.) At least they're trying to bring e-reading to the masses. People are focusing too much on the negative aspects. What about portability and convenience or downloading out-of-print or unavailable titles? These might all be compelling reasons for buying a reader. Time will tell.
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Most agreed! I think out-of-print sales could really benefit from ebook technology since there is no store house or logistic of reprinting to mess with. The challenge I guess is that some of the out-of-print books may not have digital copies to start with. Maybe Google could be on to something with the digitization of all those books. They could then sell the service to content owners to repackage the digital copies as ebooks and have a ebook warehouse where users could search, buy and download.
It's not Sony's fault, but they could use its branding muscle to get a sell-in. Kinda like what Apple did to those music distro channels right? But the tricky part would be for Sony to come up with a magic number that both the ebook distros/publishers would bite and consumers would bite. Time to spin the Magic-8 ball.
