A step in the right direction
Amazon announced today that in October, when you buy a hardcover book you will be able to download the Kindle edition for either $2.99, $1.99, $.99 or free. They will apply this to any book you purchased in hard copy after 1995.
Before I get too excited, publishers have to opt into this for titles, but it is a good start. I am biased against e-books. I actually love reading on my tablet, but I think the e-books are over priced and I hate the idea that they are licensed and can be removed at the whim of a publisher, Amazon, or anyone who can talk Amazon into it. So, I basically have been borrowing e-books from the library and using my tablet for fanfiction. I have bought exactly one e-book, the first title in a series that wasn't available at my library, wasn't at local bookstores and that I didn't want to wait to show up in the mail. Other than that, I have avoided buying e-books. If I can pay a minimal price to get a hard copy and an e-book, that would be great. I hope other bookstores follow in this. But this could be progress.
Of course, this does kind of prove my e-books are overpriced argument, but still progress.
Before I get too excited, publishers have to opt into this for titles, but it is a good start. I am biased against e-books. I actually love reading on my tablet, but I think the e-books are over priced and I hate the idea that they are licensed and can be removed at the whim of a publisher, Amazon, or anyone who can talk Amazon into it. So, I basically have been borrowing e-books from the library and using my tablet for fanfiction. I have bought exactly one e-book, the first title in a series that wasn't available at my library, wasn't at local bookstores and that I didn't want to wait to show up in the mail. Other than that, I have avoided buying e-books. If I can pay a minimal price to get a hard copy and an e-book, that would be great. I hope other bookstores follow in this. But this could be progress.
Of course, this does kind of prove my e-books are overpriced argument, but still progress.