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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
As for the justice of charging a higher tax for the eBook: I think that in the past, it was consistent with social justice because the people who could afford eReaders were more affluent than paper book purchasers. But as eReader and tablet prices come down, this won't be true any more. So what was a good policy should be reconsidered.
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Amazon's free Kindle reader software is only three years newer than the standalone reader hardware, so to the extent that this was ever true, it wasn't true for very long.