New e-book pricing scheme a surprising assault on the wallet

[karynnj]

21. One reason is convienience

You can get a sample chapter any time of the day and, if you are impressed, download the book. This also means that you can take multiple books on a vacation, without having the bulk. Not to mention, as someone looking at the difficulty of what to do with over a thousand books that our kids and we accumulated as we contemplate downsizing to a condo, the comparison might be like itunes/ipods to a large number of boxes of CDs, tapes and vinyl (which we have the most of).

I also wonder if high school and middle school books are available on a reader. If they were, and there were a time warp, I would have bought the ones my kids had that way, so they could more easily have access to them at home and at school without the heavy backbacks. (even for the times when the physical books were free.)