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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Well, technically luddites were opposed to the use of new technology in their factories.
But, again, these owners aren't *opposed* to e-readers or laptops (even assuming that they count as new technology). As I suggested, they probably use laptops themselves. They just don't want customers using them in their coffee shops. And presumably they aren't supporting books over e-readers; they have probably said nothing about books because people reading books aren't taking up their tables (and it has been a long time since I saw someone in a coffee shop reading an actual book, come to think of it).
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I see books, newspapers, textbooks, physical papers being read in cafes all the time in NYC. I myself read a print book just this morning at a cafe. Of course electronic gadgets pervade, but print material isn't dead.