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Originally Posted by danskmacabre
It's already been mentioned, but in my experience, when talking about Ereaders to friends who have never used one, pretty much ALL of them were vehemently against ereaders, staing the usual reasons why:
1: you can replace the look and feel of a book
2: I'd hate reading on an ereader
3: It's just "not the same"
4: I'm too old fashioned to use an ereader
and various other reason like that.
However once they actually try one for a bit ( a lot of them got free ereaders with mobile contracts), without exception, for the purposes of reading novels, they now prefer using ereaders by far.
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While the poll results may (on the face of it) be valid for all Americans, it seems pointless to include people who have never used an ereader in the poll. The purpose of this poll probably was to produce the result of "Americans prefer paper books", not to actually evaluate serious opinions by those who have tried ebooks. Let the publishers sleep more soundly, now that they have poll results to support their aversion to ebooks.