On the latest The Kindle Chronicles, guest Bufo Calvin made the wonderful point:
Most books are bought by people who only buy a couple a year, and mostly as gifts, and they don't have book shelves.
Why didn't we know that??? Seriously.
Just for one thing: That's why the ebook revolution slowed down and changed to an evolution...
An ereader only makes sense for heavy readers.
I grew up with bookshelves, and I have them in every room. It's spooky to me to visit homes without bookshelves, but that is most homes! (Especially now, with video games and TV and home cinemas.)
It also, by the way, explains why the world sometimes seems a bit ignorant: I try to learn a lot and expand my horizon... How? By reading books! And if 97% of people don't do that, what do you expect? Do you expect Vogue or The Sun to educate people?
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