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Originally Posted by Nathanael
While I personally love reading and my e-reader, my twenty to thirty books a year (underpowered though it may be by MR standards) puts me way up there in the bell curve. There aren't enough of us to sustain an entire market.
--Nathanael
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I'm not sure I agree with this. If there are enough readers to sustain a market for *books,* I think that there are enough people readers to sustain a market for dedicated e-readers.
It's certainly the case that neither the iPad nor the advent of agency pricing seem to have had much of an effect on e-readers sales in the US. A lot of people just don't want to read novels on LCD screens, and so far that's what it looks like tablets are bringing.