On Sun, May 30, 2010, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: What's inside the evrit reader?": > Since I have no idea of what books it reads, I was not sure the bundle > was needed, or I could just use it to read books I already have, or > can download for free.
What worries me more about what existing books it can read is - what future devices will be able to read the books I buy from them now. Unfortunately, from past experience, the answer is probably *none*. This would have been fine if they treated - and priced - the books they are selling as a rental, as in a library, e.g., read any number of books you want for 300 shekels a year, or read a book for 5 shekels, or whatever. I honestly don't understand why they don't do this! But this is not how they are treating it - the article says the ebooks will cost 50% off the printed book's "catalog price" - the price that nobody pays anyway. Which usually means at least 44 shekels to read a book once, and not being able to keep it later (when technology changes). When all the printed books I buy come at discount between 30% (through some tlushim I have for Steimatski) up to 70% discount (during one of those "4 for 100" kind of specials), a 50% discount is ridiculous. I'd rather buy the physical book, which I or my children will be able to read again in 10 or 20 years (or, if I want, I can resell or even donate or whatever). Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, May 30 2010, 17 Sivan 5770 [email protected] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |"I don't use drugs, my dreams are http://nadav.harel.org.il |frightening enough." -- M. C. Escher _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
