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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
Because it does matter. For people that aren't into eBooks yet they look at the costs of getting a dedicated reader and the books and it would cost them more or the same. So why bother in the first place?
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But they are not.
Pick five random books off of your book shelf and look them up on Amazon. Odds are the e-book will be cheaper. And that is before any sale.
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DRM constrains the average user. No lending your friend that book you really liked and you can't necessarily read the book on the device you want to. Plus you run the risk of losing your purchases if the seller goes bust. While it's currently possible to remove the DRM from some of the big sellers there's no guarantee that will be the case in the future and it's still too complicated for some people.
I like eBooks but there's tons of room for improvement IMO from the format side, the reader side and the price side.
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I don't disagree with that. But the 'ebooks are more expensive' argument just ain't so.