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@ slayda:
Good point. Maybe 99 cents for short stories....but again, that could be the parts costing more than the whole. See, once again, the iPod paradigm is difficult to translate here.
Regarding purchasing DRM-enable files & "renting" versus "owning":
There is a fancy art gallery down the street. In the window was a BIG painting of a steam locomotive in a buccolic setting. Printed in vinyl letters over the oil, was the statement "If I own a cow, the cow owns me."
So I like old trains, and that Buddhistesque statement got to me. I wanted that painting. When I went into the gallery, the pricetag was $3,000. So here's an artist making a statement against the bondage of stewardship/ownership, and they want $3,000 for the priviledge of telling us.
Sometimes it better not the buy the cow, but the milk is another matter.
This is all to say that maybe I should stop looking at e-texts as being expensive vis-a-vis paper texts, and see the charge as a premium for not taking up space.
So now I'll stop ranting against e-book prices, so long as there is no DRM.
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