Sarmat89, you got exactly one thing right:
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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
...as only the dedicated readers will pay for them.
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Very true.
Casual readers, the kind that buy one or two books a year will never benefit from ebook technology. Mind you, most of them (~70%) already have a quality ebook reader in the pocket or purse in the form of their smartphone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ne_penetration
No expense or computer required.
But ebooks are only useful to people who read and only in proportion to how much they read.
So yes, ebook readers are a minority; it's unavoidable when 28% percent don't read at all. And "only" 27% read ebooks.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...-survey-finds/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...ks-in-america/
As is, over 25% of all trade book revenue comes from ebooks despite the fact that average ebook prices (~$3.89) run about a third of average print book prices.
https://www.slj.com/2015/03/research...prices-2015/#_
That 27% of readers are buying a lot more books than the 45% that only read print.
Hardly a meaningless minority.
And hardly foolish since they read more and pay less.