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Originally Posted by fjtorres
But telephones stopped being a niche long long ago.
Book reading, in all forms, is a niche. 
Sounds like you'd be surprised at how many people go through life without doing any recreational reading. Steve Jobs was only slightly exagerating when he said nobody reads. |
My husband does very little recreational reading and what he reads is either guitar or history related. IRL, I know only a handful of strong recreational readers. There are too many other distractions such as television, movies, and the internet that compete with recreational reading. Plus, recreational time is at a premium for everyone I know because of long working hours, family and community commitments.
I'm sure we'll eventually see a $99 Kindle as the cost of components decrease but not in the near term. My first home PC, outside of the Radio Shack TRS80, cost me $5K back in 1996 or 1997. In the last couple of years I've spent that much to build five PCs and a media server and purchased a couple of laptops.