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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
As to selling ebook readers to people who don't read ... well, that's like trying to sell golf clubs to people who don't play golf.
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Exactly. Which is why dedicated reader devices won't be killed by Tablets.
The avid readers who read enough to warrant buying a dedicated reader will probably mostly still buy them. Some will move on to tablets for sure--as many here have posted about putting their e-reader in a drawer after getting an iPad. But it won't be enough to kill the market for dedicated readers.
And most people buying tablets will be people who would have never bought an e-reader in the first place. Reading about iPad impressions on other sites that aren't e-reader sites--very little of the discussion is about the e-book apps etc. People are buying them as web browsers, video watchers, etc.--mainly to replace netbooks--from what I've seen on forums for hobbies other than reading.
Yet a few of them do mention using iBooks, or checking out the Kindle app, or reading comics on it--so again it can expand the e-book market a bit among people who didn't buy it with reading in mind.