The agency pricing model, of which you'll find information in the upper forums, is being a pain in the arse as it usually, not always, means a rise of prices which people are resenting. Ebooks can't be resold.
However, you're not forced to only purchase books. You can add books from your own HDD. In Amazon's Kindle it works through their Whispernet, and if I recall correctly it has a per-book cost to reformat books so that they're readable with it.
Other readers don't have such constraints towards what you can put inside the device or you can read. I advise you to stroll around the other threads in this forum, and through MobileRead in general, because it is an unvaluable source of information.
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