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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I spend less (through direct sales anyway).
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I'd say my reading has gone through the roof, whereas my actual book buying has been dramatically reduced (this could also be because I'm tired of what the major publishers have to offer me, and popular fiction seems too ridiculous to consider at the moment.)
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Originally Posted by griffonwing
I, for one, have not bought a book in years. Main reason is that I moved back to my hometown, and we have no bookshop.
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With an ebook reader, it'll be so much easier for me to hop online, purchase/download a book and start reading immediately. Not only will my reading increase, but my book-spending will increase as well.
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My personal suspicion is that Moejoe's case is more common than your own, griffonwing.
eBook readers should definitely make noise when they are maligned. But it does seem to me we fairly often over-estimate our community's size and significance in comparison to the overall book-purchasing community.
I'd be surprised if eBook reader owners made up as much as half a percent of book buyers. And--for better or worse--that isn't much.
- Ahi