I’m pretty much the same. I’ve downloaded multiple eBooks and eZines, and I actually quite like the Adobe Reader Borders forced me to download to read some of them, but after spending all day on a computter at work, then checking my personal emails, blogs, facebook and forums at home, I just don’t want to spend any more time staring at a screen. I can’t afford an eReader at the current prices, and the old adage about low prices implying low quality is putting me off those that are appearing at the bottom end of the market (though I can’t afford most of them either!).

I’ve probably got £50′s worth of books sitting on my harddrive, waiting for me to find a better solution. In the meantime, I’ve spent the same again on secondhand books from Oxfam (and got more for my money), which I’m plowing through at the rate of knots. If I don’t like them, I donate them back to the same shop for someone else to buy. I want to go digital, I really do, but it’s just out of reach right now.

Smart.

Hachette (aka Orbit) are currently very proud of their ebook provisioning warehouse, where ebooks are “printed”, filed on “shelves”, shipped to “wholesalers” or retailers, and accounted for using exactly the same accounting processes as their dead tree books! Which at a stroke neutralizes the huge advantage of the internet.

Could this be true? I have no reason to doubt it, but still it has a “This way lies madness” feel.

Plus the DRM and e-reader versions and download this and that and the other thing and now you have a key but it’s not the book so go back and download that too and …blah blah blah from my sole attempt so far at purchasing an e-book–these things seriously hold me back from gooing digital.

No. LOL. I don’t have one either and don’t plan on ever getting one. The concept of leasing a book chafes my hide. In paper, if I don’t like the book, at least I have the option of posting it on a swap site or turning it in to a UBS. Also, I can’t mention how often I have found out of print books, that are worth quite a bit, at a UBS, for as low as .25 (Loretta Chase and Sherri Tepper-I’m looking at you). Can’t do that with ebooks. The flip side to this equation is: I am missing out on A LOT of fabulous authors (i.e. Josh Lanyon) because I won’t go digital.

I don't believe that digital reader will buy or wait. Instead, she'll buy a different book and forget about the one that had the delayed release.

I don’t think so. That’s like saying that no one will remember to buy the MM when it comes out . . . Might be true for a few books that die on the vine in HB, but I think most of us who already skip the HB and wait for the MM will be just fine skipping the HB and waiting for the eBook.

What frosts me is when the MM is out but the eBook is STILL priced as a HB!

I think “viable” is the operative word here.

Am I the only one still without a digital reader? Honestly, I read all this hubaloo, and it makes me put off purchasing one, just because I keep thinking (like an idiot, no doubt) that sometime soon the industry will figure this out, and it will be clear to me which one I should buy.

…The price is still a sizeable roadblock, as well…