People who think the iPod version of a book will ever sell like an iPod are forgetting economic basics.
Paper is cheap and portable.
iPods work because playing music has always required machines. Reading has not. There is no comparison.
People who think the iPod version of a book will ever sell like an iPod are forgetting economic basics.
Paper is cheap and portable.
iPods work because playing music has always required machines. Reading has not. There is no comparison.
And you can’t lose your entire library from a hard drive crash. House fires happen, but are rarer and less likely to be a total loss.
I wish I’d never bought a single book that I own with very few exceptions…
Paper is cheap and portable, but not exponentially so. Once your personal library in paper reaches a few thousand books, portability takes a dive.
Personally, if I could have mine in a reduntantly backed-up format, including the out of print stuff which I could still own and use whatever way I wished, I would be signing up now.