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You know, I am perfectly happy for people that enjoy reading ebooks on their phones or notebooks or pda's. That being said, have any of these writers truly ever used an ebook reader? Especially an eInk one? It's like comparing apples to aardvarks. Before the Sony hit the market there were alot of articles like this from the junior know-it-all bloggers association about how pointless they were. Later a similar stream of useless banter for the Kindle. I guess I just find it annoying when sources like Business Week go that route and probably harm what is still an emerging market.
What an article like this does is get a reader that might have taken a look at a dedicated reader and made him think, "Oh, I can read the books on my phone". At which point he'll buy a couple books, read one or two and then decide the next time he might as well grab the paperback. When anyone brings up the topic of ebooks again he'll think of that experience and dismiss it as novelty and nothing more...
-MJ
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