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Last winter at a science fiction convention, I went to an e-reader panel. The panelists were all authors, editors, and/or publishers. Only one of them was reading on any device other than a phone, and that one was kind of shunted aside and not given much chance to speak. One of the panelists was quite vociferous in saying that he had owned an e-ink reader and hated it. Another of the panelists had actually WRITTEN a book on his phone. For all they didn't like ereaders, they were pretty interested in ebooks, well informed about them, and they all seemed to like reading them on their phones.
Maybe it's just a publishing industry thing, to read ebooks on phones instead of readers.
FWIW, the audience for the panel was full of people with every sort of ereading device in their hands, but the panel never really got into talking about devices. It spent all its device discussion energy in talking about reading on phones.
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