Re: why Apple won't build an ebook reader

> Love to know where Jobs got his numbers from.  Suzanne

Don't know, but maybe from this AP story from August 27th of last year:

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070821/ap_on_re_us/reading_habits_ap_poll

which reports on an AP-Ipsos poll taken August 6-8 2007.

``In 2004, a National Endowment for the Arts report titled "Reading at
Risk" found only 57 percent of American adults had read a book in
2002, a four percentage point drop in a decade. The study faulted
television, movies and the Internet.''

27% had read no books.  And for the readers:

``Among those who said they had read books, the median figure -- with
half reading more, half fewer -- was nine books for women and five for
men. The figures also indicated that those with college degrees read
the most, and people aged 50 and up read more than those who are
younger.''

``"Fiction just doesn't interest me," said Bob Ryan, 41, who works for
a construction company in Guntersville, Ala. "If I'm going to get a
story, I'll get a movie."''

You might also want to look through http://www.arts.gov/research/ToRead.pdf.


Bill


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