Thread: Sony continues to see the potential of e-books, says BW
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Old 08-27-2007, 08:07 AM   #30
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by Studio717 View Post
Part of the issue at Best Buy might be that the clerks at the stores are in the very large percentage of folks who don't read books. At all. If you don't read books, then there's no reason to know about an e-book reader.
Yeah, based on the guys who helped me, I'd buy that.

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I still don't understand the whole "I'll never give up reading real books" mindset. I mean, I read for the content: stories, information... Unless it's a magnificently gravure-printed coffee table book of breathtaking images, I just can't see what difference it makes whether one is reading on an e-ink device or print on dead tree pulp.
I'll second this, loudly and enthusiastically. The complaints about e-books are so thin, they generally boil down to "Oh, God, something different again? But I don't wanna do nothing different! I don't wanna!.."
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