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Originally Posted by radiohead
you make valid points--but don't you think Kindle could re-ignite a new generation of readers?--especially the under 25s who have left books behind.
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The question is why they left. I doubt it has anything to do with technology.
There are a couple of problems I can see in the US, though things might differ elsewhere. One is that an awful lot of folks never learned to view reading as pleasure. It's a
chore, done because you have to, and not something you do for fun.
Even if folks do read for fun,
what they read may have shifted. How many folks read an enormous amount on the Internet, but the majority of it is short pieces, read in a few minutes, and off they go the the next? Reading a
book is an immersive experience, and an investment of time and concentration. Some folks aren't willing to make the investment. Some folks lack the attention span. Some folks just don't see a need for books, as they get information and entertainment elsewhere.
Simply making a book electronic, viewed via a device, will not magically make it palatable to those with no interest to begin with.
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Dennis