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Originally Posted by bob_ninja
Ken,
$10/month is Ok compared to what? pBooks cost $0/month as medium (paper) is included in the pBook price. pBook doesn't need a warranty, charging, etc.
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Really? Divide your mortgage/rent by square footage of your house and then multiply by the square footage your books take up. Add in the cost of your bookshelves divided by... say 120 (12 months a year for 10 years, assuming you replace your shelves every 10 years). Now add in your time dusting/cleaning/sorting those books and bookshelves. Not to mention when you move packing, lugging, unpacking. If you're the environmental type, think how many trees went into making those books so they could sit on your shelves for decades.
Still think that paper books have no cost beyond the purchase price?
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Once can load many books into a reader compared to much bigger pBooks. However, if it should fail and be thrown away after only 3 years then the advantage is lost.
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Do people have to re-buy music every time they replace their iPod? Myself having owned 7 iPods I can answer "no". Why would text be any different?
Cost is certainly a detriment to ebook adoption, but it is not as simple as "paper books have no extra cost". Like many others, I think as economies of scale keep kicking in, the ebook market will get cheaper and better. Like most emerging markets, it's the early-adopters that agree to bear the burden.