Title: Content costs too much; hardware and content should be separate
Product review: I just read a silly adventure book and thought, Would I have saved anything other than trees if I'd bought the eBook? Turns out I'd have saved $0.18. Eighteen cents? I want to want an ebook reader, but c'mon, the profit margin is so much higher on the electronic version that it galls me to pay the same for it, especially when the increased profit will not go to the author.Now I realize that four weeks of home delivery of the New York Times in paper costs $14.50 and a month of the Kindle version is $13.99. The vast savings on paper, printing, gas, delivery personnel, warehousing, etc., is obviously not being passed onto the consumer.Providing hardware for a reader is one business. Providing content is another. The inextricable link in the Kindle is not a benefit overall for the consumer or the marketplace.
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