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fjtorres · 01-24-2012, 06:39 PM

That particular report is a bit confusing: first it says 29% of all americans own one or the other. That would be around 100 million people.
A little lower, it says *adults*. And that would be around 70 milion.
Either way it's a big number but I suspect 70 million is closer to it. Allowing for overlap that would be 40 million or so of each.

Which sounds about right, no?
And a honking lot of potential ebook buyers.

01-24-2012, 06:39 PM	#3
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	That particular report is a bit confusing: first it says 29% of all americans own one or the other. That would be around 100 million people. A little lower, it says adults. And that would be around 70 milion. Either way it's a big number but I suspect 70 million is closer to it. Allowing for overlap that would be 40 million or so of each. Which sounds about right, no? And a honking lot of potential ebook buyers.