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Originally Posted by stargazertony
I don't suspect that will happen. I'm an avid reader. Have been all my life and the last thing I want is "a variety of different functions from reading books to playing games, checking email and watching videos" on my reader. I get enough of all that crap on my laptop and TV and when I read, I don't want it. The only thing you can do with a book is to read it, and that's what I want from my reader.
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That's fine, and dedicated readers will likely stay around indefinitely for folk like you.
But I do think tablets have the best chance of expanding the market for e-books. Frankly, the vast majority of my friends and acquaintances either never read a book for leisure, or read 5 or less a year.
Those people would never buy an e-reader. But many of them are interested in the iPad and similar tablets for non-reading purposes--and then they would buy those 5 or so books a year on there and expand the market. Maybe even start reading a bit more due to the convenience.
As well as expand the market for e-versions of things they do read like magazines, newspapers, comics etc.
So I see it as a win win. Those of us who aren't avid readers and want multimedia tablets get the gadget we want. And the e-book market is expanded which means better prices, quicker death of DRM etc. which will benefit the avid readers who stick with dedicated e-readers.