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Originally Posted by Over
I see your point, but I don't think we can correlate both cases.
With digital pictures, the only real problem was the digital camera's price (but only at the beggining, and even so, there were much more expensive conventional cameras too) and the photo quality. Both things common sense says will be solved in time. There was a bonus: digital pictures = 0$ cost.
To read a pBook, you don't have to buy a device. That's the first difference. The price of the ebooks is litle lower than the pbooks (many times it's the same price!). And I don't really see this go away for a very long price. Companies couldn't charge a digital photo, but they can charge ebooks and will do so. They want profit, after all.
But, most important, reading isn't as mainstream as photo shooting. This means that ereader and ebook progress will be, probably, slower.
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I don't agree with this. I bought my first digital camera 13 years ago, a tiny little camera with images less than 1 mb and recording in VGA format. That camera cost me $800 AUD. It has not been until the past five years or so that the image quality of digital photography has matured and prices have become affordable that the technology has really gained mainstream acceptance. E-reading technology will mature in the same manner and in ten years time will be just as mainstream as digital photography techonolgy is now.
Karen