[Hrafn]

Originally Posted by Hrafn

Given that my "told what to buy" was about about people-who-need-advertising (i.e. against "So ... when you buy books, you buy them from companies that don't advertise? How do you even know they exist?"), not people-who-buy-Nooks-or-Kindles, your line of argument appears to be completely irrelevant to my assumptions or beliefs.

Originally Posted by rcentros

Thing is, I don't think most people who buy a Kindle or a Nook are buying them to be "told what to buy." I think you overestimate the hold Amazon or Barnes & Noble has on their eReader device buyers. As I said in my last post, we buy Nooks and Kindles in the U.S. because 1) It's hard to find anything else, 2) They're relatively cheap and, 3) They're well-built devices.

But I've said enough on this. I'll let you have the last word.