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Originally Posted by caleb72
Well that is quite true. For me the difference between how adventurous I am online as opposed to in a bookstore could be characterised with words such as 'staggering'. So it's probably natural for me not to be able to see any veracity in a mentioned market survey that says otherwise.
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As someone who works with ebooks and ereaders every day, I have an extensive "marketing study" of personal experience to fall back on. Of the thousands of people I've talked to or helped, a great majority read MORE now that they have ebooks, and are more willing to try new authors (especially free ones and classics) because it is not cost-prohibitive. Also looking at the rankings of non-popular authors that shoot up charts in ebook formats is a good indicator that people are finding titles okay.
But I don't think one is better than the other. I personally like going and looking through the books myself, but it's not hard to do an Internet search and browse that way, either. I would say neither holds a statistical advantage over the other.