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Originally Posted by HarryT
Reading is not a "mass" interest. I think it's unrealistic to expect eBook readers to ever achieve the type of market penetration that, say, MP3 players have.
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If you notice, the big problem with reading - as opposed to music - is that you can readily find cheap, easy-to-use music players (Hell, some of them are built right into cell phones!
) and cheap music to play on them.
Now I'll grant you that you *can* read using a cell-phone, iPod Touch or pda, but they're not the most comfortable for longer works.
Instead, readers who wish a light-weight ebook reader are forced to shell out between $200 and $700 and then must turn around and shell out anywhere from $6 to $26 for a novel.
As long as e-ink and oLED readers are so expensive and the books both expensive and difficult to read across reading platforms, you're gonna find e-reading nowhere near as popular as listening to music.
Derek