You might want to consider trying something. I can certainly afford a current-generation e-book reader, but until I can actually read the stuff I want to read, it's somewhat pointless. Unless the authors who people really want to read are available, the whole exercise is sort of pointless. Books, even more so than software, yearn to be free.ģ) Major publishers and popular authors need to get on board. It would be hard to resist.Ģ) Lose the DRM / stop with the proprietary formats. Think about attractive one of these might be at $50. $400 is just waaaay to much to make these things ubiquitous. I think three things need to happen before these things take off (and they eventually will):ġ) The price needs to come down.
Saying goodbye to all those textbooks would be an unbelievable win for schools AND students. As others have repeatedly pointed out, there are some killer markets for these things in education. It's a bit sad how so much effort is being made to obfuscate what is essentially the simplest of all computer formats: a text file. Will I still be able to read the book 20 or (hopefully) 40 years from now? This early in the industry, I have no confidence that any DRM scheme implemented now will last any significant length of time.
That is, I'm buying a copy to own forever. When I buy a book, I tend to look at it as a long term investment in my personal library.
I'm encouraged to see e-books taking a stronger position in the market, but I'm saddened that so much attention is being paid to products that are tied to DRM.
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