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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Reality being what it is, the ratio of people who have an old (non-Kindle) reader, but have no phone or tablet is somewhere around zero (or negative if you count people with phone and tablet, but no reader). And how would those people buy the ebooks in the first place?
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The Senior Citizens Reading Group at my local library would take issue with being counted as a "zero group"
Plenty of old ereaders (the devices, not the people
), "senior" phones and children/grandchildren willing to put books on the readers for them. Yeah, not Amazon's target audience.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I know that argument is coming from a good place, but it is nonsense.
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I take exception to that word "nonsense" - not in an "Oh I'm offended way", but it a "not really" way.
In Canada, Kobos were cheap - often having ridiculous sales, which is how I got my Kobos - allowed you to read books from the elibraries (still do), and e-ink is SO much better for eye health than glowing screens. In the US, there was the B&N Nook - can't speak for that, not in the US - and I know many people in the UK who had Sony readers or Nooks (which I found weird).
I HAD a Ipad 2, I hated reading any books on it because it made my eyes hurt and the glass screen prevented easy outdoor reading due to sun glare. My phone doesn't support "current" apps, but it makes phone calls and sends texts, so updating to read a book seems expensive. There are more of us than you think who have what many would call "outdated tech", and while Amazon won't support us and yes, frankly doesn't HAVE to, calling it a nonsense argument is, well, nonsense.
