I'm happy there's so much choice. It's a great time to be a reader. There's something for everybody.
I'm less happy about large companies who feel the need to promote a false (or at the very least, largely unsubstantiated) narrative about the "decline" of ebooks simply because it suits their business agenda (never mind those who are happily lapping up the false narrative merely because it soothes their sensibilities). I don't think there's a single member here who would trash an article that extols the abundance of choice that book readers have today.
I wouldn't care if ebooks sales really were in serious decline (though nothing I've seen really supports that idea). Because at this point, ebooks aren't going anywhere either. But that doesn't mean I have to gobble up the blatant propaganda of companies who have a vested interest in the ebook/ereader market looking like it's in decline (or at least a vested interest in what such a decline supposedly means).
Last edited by DiapDealer; 10-26-2017 at 08:48 AM.
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