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Don't forget we are at the very beginning of tablets. With book devices already under $99 pretty soon you can buy "digital books" for the cost of a paperback b
by icefox 15y ago
Don't forget we are at the very beginning of tablets. With book devices already under $99 pretty soon you can buy "digital books" for the cost of a paperback book today and have a dozen of them in your house and lend them out all you want.
- jaysonelliot 15y agoWith the disruption of the publishing industry and death of bookstores, Amazon and Apple are emerging as the only two companies to set book prices. Other small players will be involved, but they can't compete with the big guys any more than a self-published indie band competes with Lady Gaga. Creative works are not fungible. They've already shown that they will price ebooks at the same price as hardcovers, and pocket all the savings themselves. From a price perspective, their "competition" with each other will be as meaningful as Coke vs. Pepsi, and you'll have about the same amount of choice.