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Originally Posted by ErwinOtten
But since I have my ereader there is at least 1 person a week (total strangers) who talks to me in the train and asks what it is and how it works and if I like it.... Why do you think that is? I think it's because everybody has heard of it, but NOBODY has got one. I see every gadget there is in the train, from iphone to micro-laptop, but no e-readers.
Face it, for 99,9% of the people they are still too expensive, and they are not easy to attain. There is only a very limited amount of shops (at least here in the Netherlands) where you can look at the device, and most people won't buy a device from the internet they never saw before in real life.
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I have the same experience. Total strangers that come up to me and ask 'Is that one of those electronic book readers?' They have heard of them, but nobody I've ever seen actually has one, other than myself.
And yes, there are too few brick & mortar places to look at one in the Netherlands. Waterstones in Amsterdam now has the Sony, Selexyz has the iLiad (I've seen it in the shop here in Almere). The Cybook isn't sold in any stores AFAIK.