Thread: Defective by Design is targeting the Kindle
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Old 03-10-2009, 06:51 PM   #109
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Originally Posted by Sonist View Post
You guys keep saying this, but where do you get your information? From Steve Jobs?
There was a poll someone posted here the other day that found that 60% of people said they read 1 book or less a year.

So you can imagine how the low the percentage is for avid readers that read several books a month--and are thus the key market for ereaders.

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Originally Posted by Moejoe
The dedicated e-reader is great if you read lots, but it's got nothing for those people who pick up a few paperbacks to read on holiday. Now if they had a multifunction device that could play music videos, surf the web etc as well as read ebooks, I think the adoption would be far greater.
Exactly.

Hell I feel kind of silly for buying a used Kindle 1 since I generally buy 5-10 books a year and spend a lot more time (and money) on DVDs/Blu rays and video games than I do books/reading.

But I'm hoping to read more now that I don't have the barrier if having to deal with a physical copy of a book I'll never read again, or trekking to the library.
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