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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I don't agree. You're coming from the perspective that computers are new to people, that's more and more not the case. Look at it like this, as portable computers (and I don't mean laptops) become widespread, and they will, people that read will want to read books on them, and at that point they will discover that using ebooks warts and all is a LOT easier than using pbooks. It's what happened to everyone of us on this forum. The big factor holding ebooks back is the lack of widespread portable computers.
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Most of the people I know, who all have computers, don't know e-books exist (or didn't, before I told them about it). Many of those, who have portable computers called PDAs and Smartphones, likewise didn't know they could buy books specially formatted to read on them. (Okay, granted, most of the people I know are over 40. The situation with younger folks is better, but not always by much!)
My point is: If they don't
know about e-books... how can they buy them and find out?