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Originally Posted by astra
I think you are over optimistic.
Considering the usual crowd who buy Apple and reasons why they do it, it would be quite a surprise if 20 for 200.000 sold were used for ebook reading.
If I am wrong, then within a few weeks you will see it everywhere in use by people reading ebooks. 20.000 ebook readers a week will make a walking/travelling library from the USA public transport.
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I live in Chicago. I rarely see ANY ebook device in use in public.
But the iPad in particular you won't see, except maybe at wifi hot spots. While it is a portable device it is not easily used while in transit. The smaller devices are much better for that purpose. It's the same reason you see more people reading paperbacks than reading hardbacks. I read more on my iPad than I do on my iPhone or Sony. But it you were to judge my reading by what you would see in public, you'd think I do most of my reading in the iPhone, and the rest on my Sony with an occasional pbook here & there. Whereas my actual reading is done about 45/45 iPad & book, with the remaining 10 on my iPhone or Sony.