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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
How many paper backs bought as gifts gathering dust on a shelf?
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And how many ebooks are gathering "dust" in the to-be-read pile on the electronic shelf? I'm not sure that gathering dust is a negative.
I know that I recently (within the last 6 weeks) purchased more than 40 ebooks and they have been added to my dust-gathering TBR pile.
The issue is really one of attitude. Did I buy these books with the intent of reading them or am I simply swept up in the current fad of spending real dollars on virtual items? I suspect that if we accept the 18 million devices as equalling 18 million ebook buyers, that probably no more than 10% of the buyers really have the intent to read ebooks once the initial novelty wears off. The more people that actually continue to buy ebooks with the intent to read them, the more mainstream ebooks will have become.