Have we fallen out of love with e-readers? The Independent UK, 6 October 2014, Caroline Cororan I read this article last night but decided to read it again this morning just to be sure I still felt the same. I think I do. I'm sharing it with you to get your impressions on the subject of our ereaders. My opinions -- I call bullshit on this article. Plain and simple. Here are my reasons: 1) "In 2013, British consumers spent £2.2bn on print, compared with just £80m on e-books" That's because British (and Irish books by default) are priced through the roof. For example, an $8 paperback in the US costs consumers around £8. Seems like like for like, right? Convert to US dollar and that same book is now over $10 usd. Ebooks are notoriously much lower in cost than traditional print books, especially with small presses which dominate the digital market. And for those publishers and authors putting out POD books, the average cost of those is higher still than mass
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