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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
Comparisons between e-music and e-books are flawed because of the fact that for music it is very easy to put your cd's on a device like an Ipod, while for books it is very hard to put your p-books on a device like Sony. Were it to exist a magic box to take a p-book and digitize in 10 minutes in the format of your choice, that would be different and you would see more dedicated devices available.
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I totally agree with that. You can have a CD at home and mp3 on the road etc...
A good thing would be if you could buy a paper book in the store and get the electronic version at the same time. People who don't care about the electronix text can forget about it, or, if they change their mind and buy a reader have a good starting point with their own library. This can get people interested in ebooks, and makes shopping for ebooks in brick and mortar stores possible. If you know what you want you can get your ebook online for a smaller price.
Yes, I don't know how to connect (no pun intended) the book with the ebook - for distribution (maybe you can download it from the publishers website in various formats) or DRM'ish to prevent separate sale to stay within "fair use" boundaries. But it is a nice Idea, and I would surely buy more books this way
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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
(think it this way: when you buy a cd, you pay xx$ for essentially 1-2 songs, rarely more- you buy the songs directly you pay 2-3$...)
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I don't know your musical preferences, but most CDs that I own work the other way around: there are at most 1-2 tracks that I
don't like...