02-23-2018, 02:34 PM | #31 | |
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This newest article is just more of the same. Here's why I like eReaders. Long battery life (as you mentioned). Easy on the eyes. Light, easy to carry and hold (probably one of the biggest reasons). And, ironically considering the article writer's arguments, because an eReader is a one use device – no distractions. I sometimes read on my Blackberry Q10 (if I'm stuck waiting somewhere) but I never read on my tablet – which is currently sitting in a drawer because I got tired of keeping it charged (the tablet is too heavy and the LCD screen is uncomfortable and I don't really have any use for one). I don't read books on a PC (I sometimes fire up Calibre to highlight a quote I want to use). I don't see eReaders going away. They're a niche market, but it's a pretty big niche. And, according to the article, it appears Amazon (at least) understands that many (probably a majority) of the heavy readers prefer eReaders. Last edited by rcentros; 02-23-2018 at 03:13 PM. |
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02-23-2018, 02:42 PM | #33 |
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Yeah, I think you've mentioned this a few times. Just curious, what's the draw of Mobile Read to you? A convenient place to air your complaints about the "evils" of eBooks? eBooks aren't going away, but you can dream big if you want to.
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02-23-2018, 02:52 PM | #34 | |
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02-23-2018, 03:12 PM | #35 | |
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Here's some oldish charts on ereader sales, pbook sales, etc.
https://www.janefriedman.com/the-sta...y-in-5-charts/ https://www.janefriedman.com/5-valuable-charts/ https://www.janefriedman.com/myth-print/ And then, there is this: https://www.janefriedman.com/dont-im...shing-stories/ Quote:
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02-23-2018, 03:25 PM | #36 | |
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Will that tree grow to heaven? Almost certainly not. Dedicated reading devices aren't vanishing from the face of the earth any time soon. Again, the headline was clickbait, but little said in the article was at all controversial. It was a straightforward survey of the state of the ereader market at present, and for the last few years. |
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02-23-2018, 03:58 PM | #37 | |
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I think the opposite. The younger generation will be more into it. Many older folks I encountered do not even understand what an ereader is. Sales may have tapered off due t its no longer a new concept that everyone flocks too but as long as tablet has glare and people love to read outdoors we will always have a need for a glare free reading like an ereader. |
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02-23-2018, 04:50 PM | #38 |
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"While e-books are doing just fine, the fate of the devices dedicated exclusively to those e-books is much murkier." How about it being simply due to a difference in useful lifetimes of devices? My first e-reader, a PRS-505 is still fine. Along with Calibre, I can't see any limitations for reading on it just as well as on the first day I got it. My first tablet, a Creative ZiiO bought about three years later, is running Gingerbread, so there are a lot of apps that have passed it by. It only has 512 MB of RAM. I've relegated it to video playback using their in-built ZiiO video app. The used market has more usable older e-readers. People still like Kindle Keyboards from 7 years ago. A phone or tablet from 7 years ago is hardly worth the listing fees charged to sell it. Longevity of the device's life, plus a deeper used market competing with new sales, seems an easy explanation for the author's conundrum. Then there's the anticipation of new tech, viz., a color e-reader, that can further put off device upgrade sales. |
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I remember in the era of Palm Pilots and other PDAs - which lest we forget were massively popular - that there were some early attempts to combine a phone with a PDA. They were awful and the reviews usually pointed out that you better off sticking with single use devices. A phone that's just a phone will be a better phone than one that's also trying to be a digital organiser. And I think that was true until it wasn't. At some point someone figured out how to combine these functions, and others, well - and we got smartphones. I think it was partly design and partly that the technology had to catch up - touch screens and faster mobile CPUs. Once they were good enough a watershed was reached and the market for PDAs went from being massive to niche. And I think this could happen with screen technologies. |
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I thought they didn't just go niche but extinct. Digital music players are niche but the very high end models and the very low end survive. Cameras also survive just fine. Just because multipurpose devices can do a job doesn't automatically preclude single function devices from enduring. |
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02-23-2018, 07:35 PM | #45 | |
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The last one from April 2016 shows no increase in books read since 2011. This possibly means that the heavy readers are reading more books (for the reasons you mentioned above) but they are not enough to offset the decreases elsewhere. Being a numbers guy, I would like to see a correlation in the data, even if it's somewhat limited, and I don't currently see one. |
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