Re: The right device at last?
Elizabeth Burton <[email protected]>
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Because, Aaron, despite all the antipathy to print books voiced
herein, people want to be able to treat an ebook reader the same way
they would a mass market paperback. Drop it in the tub? No biggie.
Leave it at the airport? Pick one up at Borders at the next stop.
The fact is most of the people who can't afford to pay $200 for an
electronic device, whether single or multi-purpose, aren't going to be
buying books, period. If they're avid readers, they'll do what I did
when I didn't have any money--borrow them from the library. Which
means that as long as an electronic device is inexpensive enough for
libraries to afford a half-dozen or so, and insurable so they can be
replaced if lost, damaged or stolen, the real market for ebooks and
the devices on which to read them isn't readers but librarians.
Liz
Elizabeth Burton, Executive Editor
Zumaya Publications LLC
Opening Doors to the Creative Mind
http://www.zumayapublications.com
On May 15, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Aaron Walker wrote:
Why must an e-reader have to be so cheap people "don't mind" losing it
but no other device is looked at the same way?
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