Sparknotes for iPod

Perhaps you are forgetting that TV shows have ad revenue and are given away for FREE over the air waves. Books and guides on the other hand, do not have ad revenue (generally speaking) and are SOLD (pocket-bibles excluded). $4.95 is a perfectly reasonable price!

$4.95 may seem high compared to $1.99 for a tv show but I bet that the target market will see this as money well spent. Another example of value to a specific market vs value to the masses. The future is this kind of marketing. The costs of digital production are low enough that I don't have to make a "mass media" product that everyone will buy to make it worth my time to produce it in the first place. I just have to turn a profit. Smaller, more targeted media production is what the RIAA and MPAA fear and the real reason they don't want P2P to become main stream.

Or just do what I did yesterday for a book I'm "reading" for English class, copy all the text you need, open TextEdit, paste, convert to .txt and put it in the notes folder of your iPod :sheesh:.

Hey Reid, Monarch is popular on the college / graduate school level, as a lot of University libraries have them.

From a high school student (compared to my reading assignments): To Kill a Mockingbird - already read it The Odyssey - already read (part of) it The Scarlet Letter - already read it The Great Gatsby - not going to (I think) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - going to Romeo & Juliet - already read it Hamlet - going to Lord of the Flies - going to A Tale of Two Cities - not going to The Catcher in the Rye - not going to Pride and Prejudice - going to Now if they'd release some for The Awakening, I could use them right now. And maybe cheaper. Hey, everyone in my school knows about Spark Notes. They're sort of the standard. People use Cliff notes, too, but who's heard of Monarch?