Why Aren't E-Book Readers Free with Book Purchases?

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In summary: We're both avid readers, but if we didn't have Kindles, we could easily get by with 3-4 books. :shrug:My wife is attached to her NOOK Color (and I use an eInk NOOK when travelling). The Color has many tablet-PC like features (even more so now that it can use the Android market legitimately). My sister lost her color and has been whining about it for a few weeks.Apart from new releases, books are significantly cheaper for eReaders. Between my wife and I, for a weeks vacation, we'd pack 10-15 books. Now, we don't need an extra... anything. We're both avid readers, but if we didn't
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Evo said:
I was watching tv shows online and this commercial was repeated every 10 minutes, for 3 hours. Sometimes it would air two times in a row before the show resumed. It got really annoying after the first hour. :-p I kept thinking, this tells me absolutely nothing useful about this product, and after watching it so many times, it got so annoying that it actually turned me off to the product.

But I'll bet you remember the name of the product.
 
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wuliheron said:
But I'll bet you remember the name of the product.
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