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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
The problem here is that the average person will probably never buy an ereader. The Average person hardly reads any books, just a handful a year.
Ereaders are for very niche crowd--avid readers who want to stop cluttering up the house with physical books.
I didn't buy one to save money. I bought one to not have books laying around that I'll never read again (or wasting time selling or donating them) and the convenience of being able to get books instantly without having to drive somewhere or wait for an online order to arrive.
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That's a great point, and I probably never saw it before because I'm an avid reader and have been approaching all this from my own viewpoint. But I wonder, how much of the actual book-buying market consists of avid-readers, and how much is taken up by the casual, buys a few books a year reader? If the majority of the book-buying public is made up of the casual type, then where does the ebook stand in the short term? Is it doomed to languish as a specialist device for the Avid and not the Casual? Can it break out of that niche? Or will convergent devices take over, like the iTouch and other derivatives?
Lots to ponder.