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 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
