wait, what? You mean you don't stick all the images on your website into a blob in mysql?! isn't that what blobs are for? To hold jpgs and .zip files?! and a few movies and maybe a copy of doom.

Lucky for us, the necessity of physical media is quickly going the way of the Dinosaur. Why would we ever need a physical disk to insert into our digital players? It makes no sense.

Why would you expect MORE from the older device? Why would Amazon put out an inferior new device at the same price? Look at what you're saying!

The thing with the kindle is that it includes "free" online access to locate and deliver books. so you can be anywhere and look for and purchase a new book. the book is then delivered to your kindle.

most other ebooks are just displays.

I think until there is any significant threat to kindle, you're going to see the price stay high.

good idea. 1 cent for them, 40 cents for the transaction fee. You really need to jump to $5+ to make it worthwhile. So how long do you think it will take an average user to hit 500 wikipedia searches? I don't know if I've ever visited that many pages.