Kindle

Amazon's Kindle has been around for a while (although they just came out with version 2.0) and has been hugely popular, every time I check their site there is a waiting list to buy one. It has revolutionized the way people use and think about electronic reading. No longer do you have to sit in bed with a large, hot laptop or squint and fumble around trying to find the best position to shield your screen from the sun so that you can actually make out the words. The Kindle solves these problems and many more. It has an incredible battery life, the controls are intuitive and easy to use, and included in the purchase price is the ability to download blogs, newspapers, and whole books anywhere you can get a cell signal, regardless of carrier. Amazon takes care of the data contracts and transmissions. You can get automatic updates from blogs you follow, or headlines from you favorite newspapers in near real time. I really wish I had an extra $400 or so lying around because I would definitely pick one up. The product itself is superb, but I have a definite issue with the pricing. Books can be downloaded to the Kindle for the mostly reasonable price of $10, with a few choices priced less than that. That's not a bad deal...for a book I don't already own. Why would I pay$10 for the electronic copy of text I have here in the flesh already (so to speak)? Especially if I bought that book from Amazon. Let's face it, as large of a step forward as the Kindle is, I'm still choosing an actual cover and pages book to read if I'm sitting at home, at school, at the office, basically if I'm anywhere other than traveling. If I pay $35 for a hardcover why should I not also be entitled to the electronic copy, especially when the costs of making said copy are basically nil. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, one second, another book. This should be a no-brainer addition to buying a book through Amazon. Right?