Thread: Cultural Resistance Hobbles German E-Book Market
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Old 04-17-2012, 05:08 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana View Post
The problem with the word "resist" is that it implies they ought to adopt e-books. If Germans prefer paper books over e-books right now, that's up to them. The person buying the books is the only one who gets to determine what they ought to buy.
Oh, my.
Somebody actually noticed the thread title!


I can think of a variety of perfectly rational reasons why people might choose to read print books instead of ebooks. And a few less than rational ones, too. Starting with smell fetishists.

Not my culture so I can't really assign probability values to any of the theories. Maybe some of the locals might chip in?
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