RE: The right device at last?

I'm not sure all people want to treat an e-reader like a mass market paperback. 
 
It's a device they've paid money for, whether it's the $700 iLiad or the $139.99 eBookWise or the used Palm device they get off of eBay.
 
And then, maybe some people do and they won't be satisfied until they get all the way down to free.
 
But, the fact that prices are coming down is something, as an e-reader, to get excited about I would think.
 
No, it won't appeal to everyone, but it will appeal to more than it did at the higher price.
 
Aaron J. Walker
Writer/Illustrator
"Good Morning, Friend Moon"Publisher
http://www.walkbroadpublishing.com


To: ebook-community-hHKSG33Tihig7M29m/[email protected]: EBurton-l7A4pi56lqSTURD7UP6EnlQlwWI5/[email protected]: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:26:59 -0500Subject: Re: [ebook-community] The right device at last?




Because, Aaron, despite all the antipathy to print books voiced herein, people want to be able to treat an ebook reader the same way they would a mass market paperback. Drop it in the tub? No biggie. Leave it at the airport? Pick one up at Borders at the next stop.The fact is most of the people who can't afford to pay $200 for an electronic device, whether single or multi-purpose, aren't going to be buying books, period. If they're avid readers, they'll do what I did when I didn't have any money--borrow them from the library. Which means that as long as an electronic device is inexpensive enough for libraries to afford a half-dozen or so, and insurable so they can be replaced if lost, damaged or stolen, the real market for ebooks and the devices on which to read them isn't readers but libr
 arians.LizElizabeth Burton, Executive EditorZumaya Publications LLCOpening Doors to the Creative Mindhttp://www.zumayapublications.comOn May 15, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Aaron Walker wrote:Why must an e-reader have to be so cheap people "don't mind" losing it but no other device is looked at the same way? 






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