Thread: This is why Amazon is going to win
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Old 11-23-2009, 12:01 PM   #78
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Originally Posted by Nevir View Post
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_..._literacy_rate

That stills leaves a huge population of possible users outside of the States; and the US is pretty far behind on literacy anyway (1% is a lot of people)
Yes, 1% is a lot for such a big country.

However, to say that the Nook leaves out 95% of the population... I think is a big of an exaggeration. Because the potential market would be 1. Literate people and 2. Economically able people. Lets face it, and ebook reader is certainly a luxury item.

Anyway.. I'm still not sure why one has to "win". for example, we know that Linux is a very small percentage of desktop users but they are still happy with it.

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