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Originally Posted by radiohead
I disagree--The Harry Potter series showed that if you can put out a product that ingnites young people they will read. Kindle is cool at the moment--as wii was and PS2--My niece is getting one and all her friends (they are 10), why because her friends are--there's a real opportunity to get young people back into reading here.
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I concur that the Kindle being "cool" is an opportunity, and Harry Potter certainly made a whole
lot of kids that didn't normally read avid readers of at least the HP books.
But you were talking about the 25 and ups who no longer read, not the 10 year olds who do. We can hope the latter will never
stop reading, but we have to ask what made the 25+ group turn to other things, and what might entice them back. Technology alone is not the answer.
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Dennis