Over the past several weeks we've been noticing articles about the increasing popularity of ebooks and ebook readers. Amazon still subsidizes it's ebooks, but sales are on the rise. Part of the reason on the side of the consumers is likely due to our never ending love affair with technology. The other reason is that ebooks often cost 1/2 or less than print books.
But,we here at SCC wonder why there is such a push to move us to digital books? The prices of the readers are dropping, faster than most other new technology, and more than a few companies follow Amazon's lead and subsidize the cost for putting out digital books.
We all know that the Patriot Act allows an unprecedented amount of spying on us, including our books store and library purchases. Could a move to digital books make keeping tabs on us and what information we are individually interested in, even easier?
What do you think?
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