I don’t get it. Only 27% of adults who CAN read actually READ a book last year! 27%!
How can the tiny percentage of ‘e-book readers’ take down the book industry in this way? More like mis-management on Border’s part. Start carrying conservative authors and watch your sales revenues turn around!
The Borders in ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’ is Commie Central. Commies and College Students aint’ got no cash for books. Idiots. Your MARKET is Conservative ADULTS who have money to pay taxes and time to READ.
I, for one, will NEVER own/read an e-book. I LOVE nothing more than the feel of a book in my hands. I never have less than three books going at a time, and I also read EVERYTHING from the back of soup cans to The Classics. :)
I, for one, will NEVER own/read an e-book. I LOVE nothing more than the feel of a book in my hands. I never have less than three books going at a time, and I also read EVERYTHING from the back of soup cans to The Classics. :)
Same here. I seldom buy brand new books. I mostly buy at used book stores and Amazon with great success in finding the books I want at great prices.
I have about a thousand books down stairs being eaten by white fish. I bought a Kindle, it has some limitations but when you read five books a week at times it solves the space problem.
My brother got my mom some sort of an e-reader for Christmas that does a lot, but I’ll bet she never downloads a book on it or even uses it for anything else, like read a newspaper on it. This for a woman who rarely does anything on her laptop but play bridge. She was entirely befuddled as he tried to explain it to her....but maybe that was his plan all along. He’ll probably “borrow” it while she continues to read her paperbacks and hard covers. What does he expect from an 83 yr. old woman?
I’m on the road. On a given day, I may need access
to multiple books. I commute to work on my
Harley with a few books in my backpack. It’s
heavy and I often guess the wrong books for
the work day. An e-reader (my Droid phone)
keeps far more books accessible with no weight
penalty. Shipping is dirt cheap compared to the
paper books. I buy a paper computer book
about once a week. Often from a Borders store at
a 40% discount. Their financial woes aren’t due to
a lack of patronage from me.
“Classics”
May I suggest http://www.gutenberg.org
over 30,000 free downloads found there.
Heavy “Classic” literature bias.
Many of them in HTML (including images and links).
Many of them formated for Kindle and other hand held readers.
There are great things there like the “Federalist Papers” etc.
“I, for one, will NEVER own/read an e-book.”
Never say never.....I used to feel the same way. I still read “regular” books, but for long plane flights, and general paperback-type reading my kindle is great. Also getting the newspaper delivered without having to get out of bed and sneak down the driveway without neighbors seeing you in your bunny slippers is also a bonus.
Also - check out the Project Gutenberg - there are books you can get on an e-reader that you don’t have, and can never buy.
All in all - its a great enhancement to one’s reading pleasure. If you want to read a paper book, you can still have at it.
Again- I used to share your same skepticism.
Borders is a stink-hole for latte-drinking liberals who browse endlessly but don’t buy books. As a result Borders stock is down to about 90 cents. Serves them right for trying to make money off the deadbeat leftwingers. Liberal churches are going broke for the same reason—liberals live off other people’s money, not their own.
I, for one, will NEVER own/read an e-book.I always said the same thing, but I recently found a book I wanted to read that was only available as an ebook. I finally took the plunge and bought a Kindle.
This is going to become more and more common, until in several years the only books being printed on dead trees will be best sellers and Oprah's Book Club picks. All other books will be available only as ebooks. More and more authors are discovering that they can make a better living self-publishing ebooks at $2 than they were making by having a publisher print dead-tree books and selling them for $9-$25. This is great news for authors and readers, but a disaster for publishers.
You read e-articles. You’ll read e-books in time.
I’m sure that we were separated at birth.