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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I guess I just think that "heavy" readers are heavy readers, regardless of the medium, same goes for "medium" and "casual" readers and any other label you can think of. There's casual readers who own ereaders and hardcore readers who don't.
I bought a boatload of books when I was buying pbooks... and now I still buy a boatload of ebooks. I just don't think that owning an ereader = heavy reader (or purchaser)... especially with the prices we're now seeing for ereaders.
No big deal, I just don't think the theory that "owners of ereaders buy more books than readers of pbooks do" holds much water.
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For the most part I agree with with what you've said here, I just don't necessarily agree with your conclusion. I think that while there are casual readers who own ereaders, there are probably a lot more heavy readers that own them. Most of the casual readers that I know (other than the gadget geeks
) would be horrified at the though of spending over $100 for an ereader, whereas the heavy readers are more likely to feel like the cost is justified. Add that to the fact that I think that most of the time an individual who owns an ereader will tend to buy more books in ebook form than that same person would buy if they were only buying paper books, and I do think it's a reasonable extrapolation to say that in general, ebook readers buy more books than paper book readers.
Of course, this is all based entirely on my fairly limited observations and I could be totally wrong, but it makes sense to me!
