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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I don't think I believe this statement.
I don't feel strongly enough about it to get all mean and nasty, but I just don't buy it. 
Why do you think this? |
There are a couple of reasons:
1) The NY Times article I linked to alluded to it. There's also
this article.
2) I think it makes intuitive sense. You don't plunk down $140-$380 if you don't intend to read a lot. More casual readers, if they read e-books at all, simply have the apps on their phones or computers.
3) If you take Amazon at their word (which is obviously not a given, but it makes sense, given #2 above) Amazon sells more ebooks now than paper books. There are only (that I can tell) two ways for this to happen:
a) People are generally moving en masse to download and read e-books on their Kindle apps for other platforms.
b) Kindle owners are buying more e-books than their non-Kindle counterparts.
B makes more sense to me, because Kindle owners are motivated to buy e-books, and from everything I've heard, the smartphone apps are more for casual readers.
Maybe I'm just a weirdo, but one of the calculations I had to make, way back when I bought my K1, was, "How much am I going to
read on this thing?" If you don't read a lot, the economics are against buying it.