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Originally Posted by HarryT
For me, the primary reason for buying the Reader was as a platform for reading books which I can't easily go out and buy as paperbacks - mainly books which 99% of people have never heard of which have been out of print for a century.
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I think we can ALL agree on the fact that we desperately wish there was a way to get that older, out-of-print, "we'll reissue it when we get round to it" content that the publishers are sitting on, and get it digitized for us to obtain and read whenever we want. I believe there's a market point the publishers are waiting for, when they'll see it as profitable for them to make the effort to digitize their catalogs (the next great jobs market for the Third World: Retyping English manuscripts!) and get them out there.
The big question is, are they waiting for "the iPod of Readers," or a percentage of the consumer base, or a particular marketing group (probably the 15-35s) to go for it? And how long will we have to wait?