[johnny]

Used book stores.

There is no "they're cheaper this way" when used book stores exist. I can buy paperback books at my local used bookstore, and 90% of the time they are under $5. This is opposed to the $10 or $20 for a digital copy of the same book, regardless of its age or popularity.

And while I don't mind CDs replacing records and DVDs replacing VHS, when things that do not exist in the physical world replace things that do, I have to take issue. The books you buy or the movies you buy or the albums you buy in e-form do not exist. You're paying for nothing. If the server that hosts them goes down, or the product that plays/displays them ceases to work, what you have is gone. I just don't buy things that I can't physically hold, touch, see. Rent them? Sure. Buy them? It'd be like buying air to me: pointless and ridiculous.

Now, I do recognize that Nooks and Kindles are convenient, but I would only get one if publishers started packaging digital copies of books with real copies of books, so you get the ability to carry your entire collection on the e-Reader and you get the actual, physical book that makes buying it, well, not pointless.