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Originally Posted by Read it!
So, the PRS-505 is sold since november... And when you ask for e-books, only a minority know what it is (something like less than 10%)...For the moment, the sold are very very thin (less than 10 000 for a country where live more than 65 millions of people), and a large proportion of the purchasers are people who are enjoy with technology, but they're not really read books on it.
It's right that some parts of the e-books 's technology are french, but the habits of e-reading are definitively a recent phenomen for the french readers (and maybe the european).
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I'll grant you that Sony hasn't had a large European market penetration until recently - but that's Sony's fault. And I'm glad that the French are learning to enjoy reading ebooks on e-ink devices. I was just pointing out that there are other ways to enjoy reading ebooks - desktop computers, laptop computers, large-screen cellphones and pda devices - so the idea of "reading" from an electronic device - for pleasure - shouldn't have been all that new and unusual.
Derek