The great eBook price myth

[sawyl]

Via CT, I happened across this piece by Scott McLemee which rather neatly skewers my supposed excuse that I don't want to buy an ebook reader because it's too expensive:

Food, sex, and reading are among the fundamental pleasures in life. By a certain point, your tastes are pretty well established, if not hopelessly inflexible. For the past couple of years, I’ve avoided digital books on the grounds that e-readers were too expensive, but that was, in fact, a bit of an evasion, since the whole idea was rather off-putting. It’s not like you start eating fried grasshoppers or join a bondage club just because someone gives you a half-price coupon.