Re: The Elusive e-book

> I've heard people say the younger generation will go the e-book way,  
> but sometimes I wonder if they won't even want to read books. With  
> everything geared toward immediate gratification, do they have the  
> attention span for reading books?

At my daughter's middle school there is a core of inveterate readers.  
It's only about 10% of the class--if that. These are the kids who read  
so much other students consider them "weird." There is nothing she  
likes so well as to curl up in bed with a book. But I suspect there  
are also bunches of other people who aren't crazy over books, but like  
a good read now and again. Probably in no less percentage than  
currently--30%-40%. Just my guess though.

But her generation is still being acclimated to the paper book. They  
read online: news, fiction, manga, etc. But pleasure reading is still  
on paper.

Replacing pbooks with ebooks has to be done at the juvenile level and  
I don't see that happening any time soon. Heck we can't even get  
electronic textbooks! Our kids get back problems at age 9 and require  
rolling backpacks in 3rd grade because of all the books they must carry.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, put ebooks on the GameBoy  
XYZPDQ  (under $99, bulletproof, already in the hands of millions) and  
in a generation, you'll have a legion of ebook readers.

dej

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