06-02-2003, 04:10 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 440
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Why don't YOU buy more eBooks?
Here, read this first. Then take the poll, please.
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I take offense, personally, that the presumed reason that eBooks aren't selling like hot cakes is that a) people prefer paper books, or b) it's a "geek thing." Balderdash. I can make notes in my eBook without changing the file. I can bookmark specific passages. I can take several books to read on a vacation without taking up any room in my luggage except for a PDA and a charger.
On Amazon and other major book sites, an eBook costs the same as the trade paperback copy. (I've found SimonSays.com selling an eBook for the same price as a hardcover edition, even years after publication, with a cheaper softcover edition available!) But you can't donate an eBook to the library, share it with a friend (if it's in a secure, DRM format), can't sell it to your favorite used bookstore, etc. I think that's a serious flaw in publishers' thinking: that the ebook is of equal value and permanence than a real book, and can only be sold separately at the same cost. (I see no reason why they don't give me the ebook when I buy the physical book, or sell it to me for $2 more.)
Any thoughts?
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