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Originally Posted by nekokami
I suspect there is a similar prejudice against e-only books as against POD.  |
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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
I think I put a comment on the existence of devices - not 100% if to Mr. Strahan or someone else who wrote in the same vein - that help with e-book reading as opposed to using a pc, or print them out, but usually the answer is "nice but so what, it still does not cut it with me, I want my print book even if it's on my crappy printer"
Very, very entrenched attitude.
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At the Edinburgh (Book Festival) I ended up chatting with a fair number of people who had never come across e-book devices before and showed them my e-ink based devices. It was interesting that some people didn't want to really look at the device, just dismissing the idea of such a device without looking at it at all -- they'd already decided it was no good. The rest would look and play with the device(s) quite happily. Mostly they were amazed and impressed with them. Certainly they had a few issues with them (and one or two felt they weren't what they wanted), but these devices do seem to be the sort of thing that most people really need to see and use to understand.
So having them appear in shops (which is happening at least a bit here in the UK) should be a good starting point. As is those of us with them showing them around.....