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Originally Posted by crich70
I remember a few yrs back people were debating if a company like Amazon might one day offer ereaders for free to those who want one with the idea that they might spend $ buying books from Amazon so that while they wouldn't make $ on the reader itself they would make the funds back on the books sold. I could see that happening one day. eventually the tech. will become so common place that the cost will drop down even further than it already has. DVD players did the same thing. You can get one now for about $24.00 or so and they were reasonably expensive when they first came out.
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Well, when you look at it in context, they already are giving away free readers: the Kindle (and Kobo and whatever) reading apps. For people with tablets and smartphones the apps give them an ereader for free. Especially for casual readers who can't justify even a $13 ereader.
(And in Amazon's case, the apps enjoy more or less feature parity with the dedicated hardware and even a few advantages.)