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Old 08-16-2010, 08:34 AM   #27
Ben Thornton
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I think that the main points are not luddism(?) or love of book-smell or whatever, but:
1: (perceived) ease of use, and
2: access to content at a (perceived) reasonable price

In the UK, Amazon are doing a lot for both of these with the creation of a Kindle store for the UK, so I predict a massive increase in take-up here.

(2) is still a problem, of course - many of the books that I look for are not available as ebooks, but hopefully this will improve as the market expands and the publishers see money in it.
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