More Readers Picking Up Electronic Books

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

"I'm thinking of arranging the books by the color of the Dust jacket."

what's wrong with that idea ?? if i could find a place to put one giant bookshelf big enough for all my books, i would really do that. look how pretty :

[jj2me]

So it's common knowledge that Sony's next reader will come in 2009 and have wireless?

Amazon and Sony are expected to introduce new versions of their readers in 2009.
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Mr. Haber of Sony said future versions of the Reader will have wireless capability ...

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by jj2me

So it's common knowledge that Sony's next reader will come in 2009 and have wireless?

Well, I'd say it's a common expectation... I don't get the impression the rollout of the wireless device is locked down for 2009 (and Sony may be saying that to try to steal some of Amazon's thunder). But it does seem like that's what they're aiming for.

[slayda]

Who's Oprah?

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

what's wrong with that idea ?? if i could find a place to put one giant bookshelf big enough for all my books, i would really do that. look how pretty :

Wow, that is cool

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

Wow, that is cool

Well, to be honest, it depends on what the dog is reading. Most pugs I know have abysmally bad taste when it comes to literature. (Which is why you seldom see them buying books. They're embarrassed to be seen purchasing said items.) Plus, how did it organize the shelves that way? I thought they were color blind.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by stxopher

Well, to be honest, it depends on what the dog is reading. Most pugs I know have abysmally bad taste when it comes to literature. (Which is why you seldom see them buying books. They're embarrassed to be seen purchasing said items.) Plus, how did it organize the shelves that way? I thought they were color blind.

[mdibella]

If it's an Oprah book, I can tell you the plot right now...


All men are bastids
Life sucks
And it's gonna get a lot worse


See? Now you don't have to read it!

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

Exactly his point, hence the facepalm smilie.

Yea... I know. I was kidding. Didn't you see my irony icon?

BOb

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

"Why are your books so high?"

I guess there are two answers to that.

1. They take drugs.

2. We don't have any midgets so we put all the books up high.

BOb

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Yea... I know. I was kidding. Didn't you see my irony icon?

BOb

You didn't use a smilie.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

You didn't use a smilie.

Sorry. :chin scratch:

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

You didn't use a smilie.

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Sorry. :chin scratch:

tee hee.


(oops, i mean : "")

[Alisa]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The reason things recommended by Oprah are so popular is that a most Oprah followers are lemmings and will go out and get whatever it is she thinks is good even if it's not. And they will think they've enjoyed it even it it's not good.

I did download the free MS Reader version of The Tales of Edgar Sawtelle but have not read it because I found out not long after that Oprah recommended it. So it's just sitting on my hard drive unread. Now if Oprah had recommended this book, I might have started it. But as I am not a lemming or an Oprah fan, I probably never will read it.

She featured the Sony Reader in her magazine awhile back. You'd better get rid of it right away.

[Robotech_Master]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I worked at a bookstore, too, for almost 20 years.

Many customers are often notoriously inaccurate, lazy, and dead-wrong.

Reminds me of a passage from The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley, where a group of booksellers are having a get-together and talking about their problems. One of them says:

The book section of a department store doesn't get much chance to enjoy that tangential advertising, as Fruehling calls it. Why, when our interior decorating shark puts a few volumes of a pirated Kipling bound in crushed oilcloth or a copy of "Knock-kneed Stories," into the window to show off a Louis XVIII boudoir suite, display space is charged up against my department! Last summer he asked me for "something by that Ring fellow, I forget the name," to put a punchy finish on a layout of porch furniture. I thought perhaps he meant Wagner's Nibelungen operas, and began to dig them out. Then I found he meant Ring Lardner.

In re Sawtelle: I bought it from Fictionwise mainly because it was a 100% rebate book and I was looking to get more for loading up my balance than just a pleasant feeling. I haven't read it yet, but it's nice to know it's sitting there if I ever feel appropriately lemming-like.

In re the NYT article, something I found interesting was the bit about the iPhone, where they mention that the iPhone e-reading programs account for nearly as many e-book sales as the Sony Reader, though still not as many as the Kindle.