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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Not sure what you mean by this.
Sales?
Research and development?
Use by consumers?
Putting Japanese and Koreans together as one group does suggest a tinge of detachment from reality. Kind of like saying Australians are culturally similiar to the French or the Germans.
Helen
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I can see one reason for putting Japanese and Koreans together the way the OP did: even though the countries are dissimilar socially, they are the two most advanced countries on the globe when it comes to personal and portable electronics.
When you phrase the question that way (why are ereaders less common in the two most technologically advanced countries on Earth?), it makes complete sense to include both countries.
It is also true that both countries have had much a more advanced cell phone infrastructure than the US in particular for a very long time - and if that commonality does have anything to do with the lack of ereaders, then the linkage makes sense again.