On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Akilan R <[email protected]> wrote:

>  One reason is, most of them want you to buy books from their
> online stores and not copy pdfs from your system. If they remove those
> cosmetics cost would come down.
>

On the contrary, these hardware devices are pretty much subsidized. The
business model is to provide the hardware at a low price (probably even at a
loss) and to make money in the content. The same way a DTH operator works.
This business model requires certain hardware features like 3G to make it
easy for the user to buy the content as easily as possible.

Regards,
Arun
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