What the hell, will eBooks ever be cheaper?
Right now, it costs more money to buy eBooks. Compare the prices of the books. Same price, right? Yeah, except for the fact that Amazon doesn’t allow the “4-for-3″ Promotion. Why the hell is that?
Sweet, digital copies cost more AND I have to purchase a $259 e-reader. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?!
Wheel of Time 1:
http://www.amazon.com/Eye-World-Wheel-Time-Book/dp/0812511816/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275965723&sr=8-3
Wheel of Time 2:
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Hunt-Wheel-Time-Book/dp/0812517725/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275965723&sr=8-7
Wheel of Time 3:
http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Reborn-Wheel-Time/dp/0812513711/ref=tmm_mmp_title_0
Wheel of Time 4:
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Rising-Wheel-Time-Book/dp/0812513738/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275965723&sr=8-13
For example, If I bought the (12) of the Wheel of Time books… it would cost me $96 for the digital copies, but $72 for hard copies?
WTF?
$7.99 x 12 = $96
$7.99 x 9 (4-for-3) = $72
There is promotion for ebooks from time to time too. Of course if physical book have promotion but ebook don’t, then it is possible that physical books are cheaper. However, in general, ebooks have a cheaper price from my experience.
I own the Kindle, so let me give you some of my opinions. It is a great device, and I’ve to say I love it! I think I’ve read over 30 books with my Kindle, no glitches so far! And since Kindle books are cheaper than actual books, I think I’ve saved around $120 on buying books already.
One of the reasons I love my Kindle is that it has helped me improve a lot on my efficiency and utilize my time. Before I have the Kindle, waiting time like when I’m waiting for friends or waiting for shuttle bus or some thing like that is simply wasted. Now I just need to bring the Kindle 2 along with me, and all my favorite books are inside it. Another thing I like the most is the text-to-speech function, which means I can “read” books without even holding or looking at the Kindle. Now I like to use this function when I’ve myself busy on some boring things, say when I’m on the step machine or doing some housework…
I like reading and at the beginning I did miss a bit on the feeling of reading books. But now I love to hold the Kindle, the e-ink seems to work very well, it is really like reading books… Now I often read with the Kindle for several hours but I don’t feel tired… And I now prefer to manage all books inside the Kindle rather than my never big enough bookshelf… And like to do bookmarking, annotation, dictionary lookup without any additional thing but a Kindle.
There are quite a lot of free books (tips: if you’re outside the U.S. all the books will have US$2 added, but when you choose to download to computer when you check out, the $2 will be waived, and you can copy the books to your Kindle through USB cable), and many Kindle books, magazines and newspapers are cheaper than the actual paper version. I remember I read these reviews about the benefits of the Kindle when I decided to buy it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR2DUM7S4XW06QN%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ASIN%3DB00154JDAI%26nodeID%3D%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Fpr%255Fcmt&tag=elec-m-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
http://www.speedreaderxreview.com/is-kindle-2-worth-the-price
Hope it helps 
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