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When it comes to ebooks for novels, I only purchase ebooks now. I haven't purchased a hard cover or paperback book in over 5 years. I use ereader books only as the DRM is easy to use, and ports over to as many devices as I want. If I change my credit card number, then I just redownload the books with the new card number and I am off and running again.
As for the price point of the ebooks, well this has been debated for every also and will continue to be debated. For me, I have come to the conclusion that I am willing to pay a convience fee for having books readily available when ever I want them. If I want to purchase a book while sitting at my son's soccer tournament and start reading it I can, can't do that with a paper back book.
I realize and understand the arguments made for the lower price of ebooks, but I also understand that there is a bit more work to getting books into an ebook format.
I think the fact that there hopefully will be a standard container for ebooks is a huge step forward. Now it will allow us to pick the reader we want based on the functions of the reader itself, one of which might very well be the DRM that that particular reader uses.
My biggest gripe on ebooks, is that not all authors or publishing companies will release books in this format. Hopefully this will change and I am starting to see many more titles available as each year goes by.
-Eric
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