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May 15th, 2006

Higher oil prices: Good or bad for e-books?

By David Rothman

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Whatever your answers, feel free to give your own reasons if we haven’t included them. (Time stamp changed from earlier today. Photo via flicker under Creative Commons license.)

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3 Responses to “Higher oil prices: Good or bad for e-books?”

  1. slick Says:
    May 15th, 2006 at 11:51 am

    Well in economic terms, it will be bad because of the opportunity costs. If gas prices weren’t high, more money could be spent on other things.

  2. Robotech_Master Says:
    May 15th, 2006 at 4:21 pm

    I’m gonna go with “bad”—because, as the prices of everything else goes up, ebook prices will too. The ebook people have overhead costs—electricity, rent, and so on—and somewhere in the chain of suppliers, gas/oil prices going up affects everybody else downstream. That’s what causes inflation.

  3. Mable Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 3:52 am

    Absolutely right slick! The prices of most commodities are increasing day by day. And next is queue is the Oil. Think from the middle income group’s pt of view. If the oil prices ll rise, the economy is going to fall sureshot.

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