Thread: Will e-book readers make your library obsolete?
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Old 02-17-2009, 01:23 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
About 60% of homes in the USA have a computer. (55% a few years ago; I've heard the 60% number on tv news recently.)

The other 40%, including half of the African American and Latino population, will not be replacing their pbooks with ebooks anytime soon.
Interesting statistic considering I don't know one person that does not have a computer... this includes all the Hispanics and blacks I know.
.... don't believe everything you read.

However you're rebuking my statement by showing me statistics of computers. And if we where talking about computers or the consumer’s wiliness to adopt new technology I would tend to agree. But that was not the intent of my statement.

I’m referring specifically to ePaper, right now the cost is high, but that is because ePaper is a new technology. Once mass manufacturing is in full gear the cost of these devices will be cheap very cheap.

I believe the bulk of the drive to employ ePaper will be from business and institutes (hospital/schools) that are always looking for cost cutting. Who can look a year or more ahead of them and say I can save millions by using ePaper vs. printing.

Which will eventually lead to the average consumer adopting ePaper devices.

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