... but you also get a better book for your money (good binding, acid-free paper, larger print). Whereas the current e-book pricing model seems to be to charge

... but you also get a better book for your money (good binding, acid-free paper, larger print). Whereas the current e-book pricing model seems to be to charge the hardback price while the book is in hardback and above the paperback price (so 9.99 Kindle download while the paperback is 7.99) when the paperback comes out. It is no wonder that people find that unfair. Moreover publishers gain from e-books in other ways (eg. by killing the second-hand market). No matter what is or is not "fair", the reality is that I, a generally early adopter with a comically bad shelving problem, would like to get into e-books but hesitate to do so due to pricing and DRM concerns. If people like me are not jumping into the water, I think it shows that there is a large untapped market that would respond to better pricing. If volume goes up, price can go down. Right now my wishful thinking involves a Netflix for books; basically pay a subscription be able to have 1-3 books "out" on a Kindle (for the sake of argument) at a time. If I like them, I would probably go and buy the hardback to keep/lend/re-read/get-signed but most times I probably wouldn't. Edit: I think that O'Reilly's Safari is close to that model, but a captive device like Kindle and Amazon's huge catalogue would take that to a whole different level.