数字时代：只求享用，不求持有
作者：By Emily Tamkin
来源：《英语学习》2017年第02期
或許大部分人都会理所当然地认为电子书比纸质书便宜，在网上付费看电影比购买电影光盘便宜。所以当亚马逊上的电子书定价比纸质书还要高，下载高清版电影比购买二手光盘还要贵时，很多人感到疑惑不解。但如果换个角度思考，电子版带给我们的除了信息内容，还有便利舒适的使用体验，也许你就会觉得多付的钱是值得的。
We’re increasingly paying extra to get the digital version of a book or movie.
我们正在为数字版书籍或电影支付越来越多的钱。
Imagine， for a moment， that you want to buy The Complete Works of Primo Levi1 edited by talented translator Ann Goldstein. If you were to buy a new version of the hardcover2 collection on Amazon， the price is$58.40. If， however僵尸男孩资料交接表模板， you decided that rather than adorning3 your shelves with Levi， you wanted to download it to your e-reader，
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Of cour修冰箱>决眦， it’s just a difference of $1.09. But spend some time on Amazon and a trend becomes clear： Many （though certainly not all内蒙代东致辞简短） digital versions cost more than their physical counterparts4. The Blu-ray Disc of the Christmas classic Love Actually costs a very reasonable $8.68， but to download and buy the HD5 version on Amazon Video costs $14.99. 一年级反义词大全（教学设计方案To download and rent it costs $3.99， while a ud version is only$2.37）. Download Beyoncé’s6 Lemonade from Apple to your iPhone for $17.99， but get the CD on Amazon for just $15.76.
