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Old 10-30-2015, 10:16 PM   #7
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Those numbers make no sense.
They say that a third of all adults were using ereaders in 2014, when ebook penetration (on ereaders and phones and tablets) barely reached 24%.
That's what people told Pew interviewers. It doesn't mean it's precisely true.

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And suddenly, one year later over a third of those people threw the ereaders away?
A lot of them were gifts to people who rarely read books, leading to the eInk devices now being forgotten.

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And who paid for this new study.
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The foundation's money comes from the family that owned Sun Oil. At this point, there is no plausible policy connection between Sunoco (or Amazon, or Apple, or Bertelsmann) and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

I think it is true that eReaders are becoming less fashionable. At some point that could be a problem for me. But since I've got tiny screwdrivers, and repair parts, and are not afraid to use them, I'm hardly worried yet.
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