[stevebaz]

Hi from an avid reader of books of old. I haven't got a reader because the price of ebooks is totally prohibitive.

From conception to production books nowadays are digital. There is no manhandling of the product until plates are made and then printed. So why should ebooks cost so much? The book never ever leaves its electronic/digital home.

Until the industry gets real I shall not be buying a reader especially at the price the readers are. I do think readers are value for money and are a great idea.

I go through at least one book a week and sometimes two and at this pace I just couldn't afford ebooks.

I find it rather strange that there is very little said about the cost of the product in the press. Max Hastings the other day was extolling the virtues of the eReader - that had been given to him well loaded with books - but precisely because he had been given this prezzie he bypassed the cost of loading the eReader.