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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
...it's a survey that is designed to provide booksellers with helpful information about buying trends.
If you aren't buying books, these organizations have no particular reason to concern themselves with your behavior.
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Perhaps my initial reaction would have been different if they had referred to their best customers as "avid spenders" rather than "avid readers".
Nevertheless, if I have spent the big bucks on an eBook reader yet I am not spending money on eBooks, it would seem to me that that is a behavior both publishers and booksellers ought to be interested in knowing about.
I think it is Dennis who has often pointed out that reading is not something that can be done in the background, and that the commodity of which there is a finite supply is time.
So if I am spending my limited time reading free eBooks after spending a lot of money on an eBook reader, the industry would probably want to know how much less money I am spending on books this year as opposed to the year before I bought my device (or in the alternative, if I am merely increasing my reading with free books while spending the same or more money on hardcopies).