That's a big falacy. DRM books are not owned, just rented for a period of time that depends on technology and the willingness of the seller to help you out when you change your device. DRM books are far less valuable than drm-free books or print books so that needs to be reflected in their price being set at "disposable" level which is about 2$ in my opinion. Since that price is not economically viable, the commercial ebook market is the way is now (almost dead) and that's not going to change by introducing all the cheap ereading devices in the world.
The action now is in digitizing (Google) and the underground, and that's what will bring the ebooks out of the commercial wilderness.
Liviu
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Originally Posted by markrich
You will need DRM in some form else the market will never grow and if the market never grows then the readers will always cost silly money.
Marky
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