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Liviu_5 · 09-28-2007, 09:09 PM

It focuses on newspapers but it's relevant to e-books too and emphasizes one thing that is rarely mentioned.

To read e-books (e-papers) you need lots of things that cost money (pc, broadband, memory storage, devices...) that you do not need for regular books or newspapers, so that's a main reason people are not going to pay a lot for that content. Here:

http://blog.publish2.com/2007/09/21/...omics-of-news/

09-28-2007, 09:09 PM	#1
Liviu_5 Books and more books Posts: 917 Karma: 69499 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: White Plains, NY, USA Device: Nook Color, Itouch, Nokia770, Sony 650, Sony 700(dead), Ebk(given)	interesting article on the economics of e-content It focuses on newspapers but it's relevant to e-books too and emphasizes one thing that is rarely mentioned. To read e-books (e-papers) you need lots of things that cost money (pc, broadband, memory storage, devices...) that you do not need for regular books or newspapers, so that's a main reason people are not going to pay a lot for that content. Here: http://blog.publish2.com/2007/09/21/...omics-of-news/