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Originally Posted by Harmon
It seems to me that the "Typical User" buys ebooks from a single source like Amazon or B&N, based on which EBR he or she has purchased. This TU reads the book once, or rereads it, on that EBR. The TU does not own more than one EBR, is unaware of calibre, and would not find it either easy or worth the time to format shift. He or she would not know how to retrieve the ebook file and email it to someone else, nor would the TU care to go to the trouble of doing it.
It is only the "sophisticated user" who can or will or wishes to do these things.
I'll bet that the ratio between SUs and TUs is 100-1.
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If that is the ratio, then the typical users would be the sophisticated users, typical being the most common user.
Beside that this is also a matter of time. How many people that have been reading ebooks for lets say 5 years could be described by the definition that you gave for TU? How many that are TU today will be SU next year? How many of them don't know somebody that can do the sophisticated work for them?