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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Consider the number of readers of MobileRead who got here because they heard about ebooks and devces to read them, and wanted to learn more.
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But that's the problem. Ebooks aren't advertised in Europe. I mean I knew that they existed, but I like pbooks anyway.
I'm guessing that most people that started to read ebooks were buying for example from amazon, saw that there is an ebook version, thought about the advantages, and decided that ebooks was the way to go. Then comes the idea that with a dedicated reader you have even more advantages.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I'm a modified impulse buyer. My selection of an instance of a class may be impulse, but I'll probably know something about the class.
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So what do you do if you encounter a new class? I mean given the choice between something that you know, and something unfamiliar, do you just buy the one that you know, or go home to do research?
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Ereaders aren't quite at the level of impulse purchases. Depending on what you get, they don't have to be enormously expensive, but they are unlikely to be "cheap".
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For me they are. It's strictly a once-a-year kind of thing, but I do buy something that costs a few hundred euros.
But it doesn't really come out of nowhere. I've been noticing that I'm running out of space for my books, and as a PhD student in a foreign country with less than 2 years until I'm finished, I actually have to think that I'll have to pack everything up pretty soon. Switching to ebooks makes sense if I don't want the books to outweigh everything else that I own. So when I was In the store, and I saw the ereaders, I realized that that was something that I wanted to buy.
If there would have been a staff member around, I would have bought an ereader and been happy with it. Like this, I chose one that is better (and more expensive), but I've waited for two months for it, and I still have a couple of weeks of waiting left.