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I am starting to see more and more digital book readers. When i go out to Starbucks or Borders, i see a few of them. People are starting to buy these clunky digital books. Right now, Sony and Amazon are the major players in the digital book market. They have signed up with major book publishers to distribute books via electronic file format. They cost around $350 for the digital book reader. Books in file format fetch around the same price as their paperback counterparts.

I honestly think that this market only has a change if it goes the MP3 route. If people can easily convert any book into electronic file format, then this thing could take off. But, unlike mp3s you cannot easily transfer your books into readers files. Our cd collections were easily converted into MP3s. Or people downloaded them for free thru sites like napster. So the mp3 players took off. But digital books aren’t that plenty. Also, the distributers are keeping a tight lock on these files. Unless hackers can set it up to release a lot of public domain digital books for free, this market won’t catch on.