If you average more than a book a month then no this is not over priced at all. You save so much on the purchase price of books this thing pays for itself in under a year -(my wife averages 2 books a month).

Also – this device is like a mini-laptop. My wife was out updating her facebook page on this thing as it comes with a Web Browser and basically has free internet on it. It also doubles as a MP3 player. This product is not just a E-Book reader, it is much much more.

Also, as with the K1, there are easy ways to get PDF, along with other E-Book formats to the K2 without having to e-mail to your kindle address and paying the .10 fee.

I’m sure everyone is noticing the obvious signs with the current distribution method for newspapers and magazines and the probable bankruptcy of many large publishers. Think about the cost to print and distribute newspapers and magazines? Not just the resources such as the raw materials used to print the paper but also the fossil fuels used to deliver these from press to final destination. I would guess 95%+ end up in the trash or recyclers. Books present the same problem, except instead of ending up in the trash/recyclers many sit in warehouses or bookstores. The Kindle, or more like some future, cheaper form of it, will one day replace physical print media. It is just a matter of time…solely driven by the economics of the “old” print media business model.