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Originally Posted by Chris Rastyk
As much as I love using the Sony Reader, I can't believe they are not deeply discounted because they are NOT the same as physical books. With physical books, you can buy and sell used books, trade them to your friends, etc. And the costs of brick-and-mortar shops, the product itself, shipping, etc. are eliminated with ebooks. So where's the savings?
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Speaking personally, the "savings" are those of
space, not money. I don't have room in my house to have 10,000 paper books. I have 10,000 eBooks on an external USB disk the size of a pack of playing cards.
I didn't buy my Reader (or my other reading devices) to read books I could go out and buy as paper books; I bought it to read the books that I
can't easily go out and find as paper books - the tens of thousands of out of copyright books at Project Gutenberg, etc.