Again, I have the opposite viewpoint; if the price of the books were more reasonable, then wouldn't that offset the higher initial price of the e-reader? That seems the more consumer-friendly approach.

Disclaimer: Other than reading the occasional Gutenberg text on an old Palm TX, I don't own an e-reader. With the recent shenanigans by content publishers forcing Amazon to raise their e-book prices, I'm really not interested in even entering the market - no matter what the price of the e-reader. If they gave it away free, (a la mobile phones), I still wouldn't bite the lure. $15.00 for an electronic book is just too much, IMO. Especially when I can get all kinds of dead-tree reading material at the local used bookstore and library. They have plenty available there to keep me occupied for the rest of my life.

"... would be willing to pay the same if not slightly higher for ebooks as I would for dead tree books..."

Why? Not trying to troll. Just curious about this statement. Knowing that the cost to produce is significantly lower, (yeah, yeah, I get the 'supply/demand economics' argument), why are you willing to contribute so much more to the supplier's bottom line? Is it all in the convenience factor or is there something else I'm missing?

Help me understand as I have the opposite mind-set; if a thing costs less to produce, it should cost me less to buy it. Otherwise, there is non-free market profiteering going on somewheres, isn't there?

No, 2009 is still correct, if that's when he copyrighted his sig, (hah!). It will still be the correct copyright date in 2011 and 2012 and 2013... no scratch that last one. The world will (apparently) not likely make it past 2012.

The perfect tri-fecta of women, coffee, and beer is, 'cold and bitter'! :-p

"...don't think that was a problem which the people originally started worrying about what people knew about them were concerned with."

Still trying to parse this. Will get back to you when parsing is completed... ;]

I believe his point is that his handwriting, (w/pen & paper) is already not legible. So using this tech won't help him.

No, but it might take a brain surgeon.

Sorry, but I won't believe it until confirmed by Netcraft.

"Delivered"

That has to be one of the funniest things I've ever read! (I just hope it's not one of those, "it's funny 'cuz it's true", type of things).

Thank you. You should quit your day job now.

That **whooshing** sound you hear is the spinning knife-blade hands of the robot army coming for you. Better hurry and put your affairs in ord - wait... what...?

Ok, never mind. It was just the sound of the joke going over your humor-devoid cranium ;-)

"Perhaps. But the hats are AWESOME."

Yaahrrr... but gettin' the peg-leg and hook installed can be a mite painful.

Switzerland != Sweden. Please stop posting while drunk.

But couldn't the tarball be used to repair the pothole instead?

These car analogies sure can be confusing!

That's all true. I just find myself in airports without a free connection a lot more often than I find myself at McDonald's. That McD's are offering free wi-fi won't bring me in. Free wi-fi at airports, while not likely to happen for the reasons you mention, would still be much more useful - at least for me.

Meh... please notify me when wi-fi is ubiquitously free at airports.