Comments on: Digital Manga: 2009 Year in Review http://manga.jadedragononline.com/blog/2009/12/18/digital-manga-2009-year-in-review/ Manga News, Reviews and Commentary Mon, 20 May 2013 10:43:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brian Henderson http://manga.jadedragononline.com/blog/2009/12/18/digital-manga-2009-year-in-review/#comment-1317 Brian Henderson Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:54:30 +0000 http://manga.jadedragononline.com/?p=3328#comment-1317 E-book readers still suffer from the same problems they have all along. They’re still single-use devices that cost *WAY* too much, the media is far too expensive, most are very DRM-laden and they’re just not convenient enough to outweigh all of the downsides. The only reason to have an e-book reader these days is to show off, certainly there is no rational reason to carry around a $200 device that holds hundreds of books you cannot conceivably read in any reasonable amount of time.

They still haven’t come up with a device that’s worth buying, that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, where the media is cheaper than just buying a book at the bookstore. I want to *SAVE* money on the media and eventually pay off the device. That’s just not the case today, nor do I see it happening in the short term future.

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