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Originally Posted by radleyp
Let's at least try to get what he said straight: he said that Americans are not reading books, so why bother with a book reader? Why he said it is food for speculation, in which we have been indulging here quite freely. And what if he doesn't like being beaten out by the competition? What successful CEO does?
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Because reading is education and how culture evolves and grows...reading or the material to read is not nor should it be treated as a commodity.
I don't care who the CEO is...treating reading in such a dismissive fashion is either arrogant or not responsible. He has a bully-pulpit and almost an obligation to address that issue. Instead he seems to engender Idiocracy as it makes him more money today.
I think people who know what reading means cannot and should not ignore such a comment from such an influential person. For example what if say the US President said the same thing and then proceded to say because of it we need to spend less money on libraries & text books?