There is an
article in today's Telegraph newspaper about ebooks in which the writer says
Quote:
Finally, there is the all-important emotional question. An ereader, like all gadgets, is shiny, plastic, artificial. A book is pliable, organic, warm.
And that, in the end, is the reason I suspect the ereader will be slow to become a mass-market phenomenon, if indeed it ever does. It works for me because it is an elegant solution to a specific problem - that of carrying heavy books on the Tube. But it won't work for everyone.
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He seems to imply that it is a solution to a problem that only he has. There are thousands (millions?) of people that travel on public transport every day that could benefit in exactly the same way. I think the real barrier is the initial cost of the hardware.