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Originally Posted by rlauzon
If you went to the average person and said:
You have 2 choices.
1) Pay, up front, for $400, an eBook reader, then pay $10 per eBook.
Your eBook reader can fail at any time and may render your purchased eBooks unreadable. You cannot buy used books nor can you borrow books from your friends. Oh, and Amazon is keeping track of what books you read when you use their service.
2) Continue with the current process - where books might cost more, but they might cost less. But you get to buy used books and borrow books from your friends. And no one keeps track of what books you read.
Guess which one they will pick.
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The problem here is that the average person will probably never buy an ereader. The Average person hardly reads any books, just a handful a year.
Ereaders are for very niche crowd--avid readers who want to stop cluttering up the house with physical books.
I didn't buy one to save money. I bought one to not have books laying around that I'll never read again (or wasting time selling or donating them) and the convenience of being able to get books instantly without having to drive somewhere or wait for an online order to arrive.