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Hi
Talking about ROI touches my heart - my major is business administration so…
Concerning eBook readers one does have several problems here and they begin with, per example, usefulness…
How much money do one puts into having 100 books/documents/what ever together in the same moment in a device (a book is a device as any other) weighting less the 200/300 grams?
Or how much money one puts on the space occupied (now and in the future) between a 500/1000K file and a 600/700 hardback?
And so on…
So, today, ROI does not apply to eBook readers.
Maybe in the future when the hardware will be of almost of no concern (a la inkjet printers of today, when most cost nearly the same as the set of cartridges they have inside) one can check the ROI of it.
Still, a good measure is… literature.
If one does read it… how much time the difference between the cost of a eBook versus the cost of a print book (something, maybe like a eBook can cost 50% to 75% of it’s print sibling) will take to justify the cost of a eBook reader (even at today costs)?
For me, my (now!) 20 month Cybook, who cost me 405 euros with it’s cover and the sending chargers, has paid itself several times…
But, hey it’s just me… in the equation I have also to say it has been used as a a demonstration tool, class digital libraries example (I’m a University teacher too), company tool (I have a company too), etc…, so… it’s ROI, for me was less then 3 months, but even if I did not used it for business proposes, I had it (as I say above) break even more then a year ago.
Best Regards,
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