One idea would be to turn the business model of book selling on it's head.
Cheap downloads of titles for you're e-reader, then if you really like a book you'd go and buy the hardback version to put on you book-shelves.
Or another way would be like DVDs with 'presentation' sets, you could sell books on a memory stick in a cute little box, the user just plugs the memory stick into the side of thier e-reader and transfers the book onto it.
Totally agree though that the thing that's most likely to make or break the e-reader is not the technology, but the content that's available
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The BBC has a helpful guide - not sure it the numbers are the same as XKCD http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12722435
One idea would be to turn the business model of book selling on it's head.
Cheap downloads of titles for you're e-reader, then if you really like a book you'd go and buy the hardback version to put on you book-shelves.
Or another way would be like DVDs with 'presentation' sets, you could sell books on a memory stick in a cute little box, the user just plugs the memory stick into the side of thier e-reader and transfers the book onto it.
Totally agree though that the thing that's most likely to make or break the e-reader is not the technology, but the content that's available
unfortunately the elephant was still there