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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Score one for missing the point.
I would prefer to pay no more than Baen prices for e-books. However, when Amazon pulled all the Macmillan dead tree books from their site they played dirty pool. That is the behavior I do not want to support.
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I would agree. To a certain extent they are both acting like spoiled children, but history has certainly shown that those business who resist the march of progress are doomed for obsolescence.
Just one anecdotal piece of information, but one that surprised me this week. I've been reading ebooks for years utilizing PDA's and then ereaders starting with an iLiad and then various Sony and Kindle models. It's safe to say that I've been doing it since the very beginning of the market. I also used to travel extensively, but for the past year have been in a job that requires minimal travel. In the past I would very rarely see another ebook reader, maybe one or so, but it was not common. This past week I was on a flight from Boston to Atlanta and had three additional ereader users within two rows of me. If the publishers want to believe there is not a risk to their business they will not last long. The momentum is clearly in the favor of the ebook.