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Do you really believe that?
Personally, I have zero doubt the paper book is dying, but I think it's dying extremely slowly. First to go will be fiction, then the non-fiction equivalent of a novel (i.e. non-fiction intended to be read cover-to-cover... is there a word for that?) Eventually, paper books will be limited to specialty books and possibly bestsellers. My (reasonably uninformed, unprofessional) guess is that within the next 15-20 years time we'll see the above come to pass. And once it does, it's just a matter of a bit more time before paper books are gone altogether. I may be completely off on that timing, it may happen sooner it may happen later, but I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever it will happen. |
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I mentioned this opion in the other thread. Is 1000 people really a good sampling? Did they survey people that experienced e-readers? What age group were they targeting? What geographical location? Any many many more questions need to be addressed before we can get an accurate pulse on paper vs e-books.
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I love my ereader and I love ebooks.
I know many people who prefer paper and many who are ambivalent and some who actually prefer ebooks. Age does not seem to matter. My mother who is 87 loves her ereader, but has no problem with paper either. I know children under 10 who read both. These I would class as ambivalent. Not undecided, just are happy with either. Myself, I would be devasted to have to go back to paper for fiction. I still am fine with newspapers and magazines in print. I've never been fond of hard covers, as I find them cumbersome, but technical books and non fiction are okay either way. So I am some sort of weird hybrid reader I guess. I would think that a reputable responsible polling company/person would disqualify those who didn't read at all, or didn't read anything but the TV Guide, but who knows. I would disqualify all who had never tried an ereader ![]() Ultimately it is the children of today who will decide. When someone markets a GI Joe or My Little Pony ereader successfully we will know the time has come. Helen |
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I'm finding it really incredible that so many people who don't like the results are having a knee-jerk reaction that the polling methodology is flawed and/or that the pollsters tailored the results to fit someone's agenda.
If there's anything to support this belief, fine--where's the evidence? It's not like the poll was even remotely close. Why is it so hard to believe that a vast majority of people prefer paper books? |
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Producers' savings have not been passed on to consumers. *Gasp*
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I don't really care how many readers prefer paper to electronic. I just know the "three out of four Americans prefer" bit is either bullspit, meaningless, or meaningless bullspit. There is no evidence to support that 3 out of 4 Americans read anything in the past year--let alone read enough to have a valid "preference." I have no trouble believing that a significantly larger percentage of "those who actually read" still prefer paper. No trouble at all. I just don't believe that three out of four Americans even read ... so how could the "three out of four Americans prefer..." claim possibly be valid? That's all BEFORE you get to the part about whether or not someone who's never experienced an ebook can even be said to have a "preference" at all.
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A comment on Slashdot mentioned that Rasmussen only calls land lines in their polling. If this is true, there may also be a generational bias as they are missing out on the cell-phone only demographic..
I think a more meaningful statistic is simply sales percentages of pbooks vs. ebooks. |
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But it'd still help indicating a preference of all buyers... "in 25% of all sales of books, buyers prefer the e version over the paper version." Although, then you end up with a question of whether that stat should be reported in dollars or units. With either one there's a skewing of the data to indicate something which may or may not be true.
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