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<blockquote data-quote="The Feedster" data-source="post: 531015" data-attributes="member: 259515"><p><img src="http://mos.techradar.com//classifications/computing/mobile-computing/handhelds/images/amazon-kindle-728-75-200-200.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Author Nick Hornby has expressed his doubts over eBooks - although it is people's attitude to reading as a whole that appears to be supporting his argument.</p><p></p><p>The bestselling author of books like <em>Fever Pitch</em>, <em>About A Boy</em> and <em>High Fidelity</em> was bemused by Borders' £399 Iliad eReader, but even more concerned at the pile of bargain books being ignored by its side.</p><p></p><p>"Attempting to sell people something for four hundred pounds that merely enables them to read something that they won't buy at one hundredth of the price seems to me a thankless task," Hornby wrote on his blog.</p><p></p><p><strong>iPod comparisons</strong></p><p></p><p>Hornby goes on to point out that eBooks have a far harder task than the iPod did in creating a revolution in digital music, quite rightly pointing out eBbook readers have a couple of disadvantages when compared to mp3 players.</p><p></p><p>"The first is that, when we bought our iPods, we already owned the music to put on it; none of us own e-books, however. The second is that so far, Apple is uninterested in designing an e-book reader, which means that they don't look very cool."</p><p></p><p><strong>Depressing</strong></p><p></p><p>But it is the attitude towards books - and the failure to get people reading - which seems to be at the forefront of Hornby's mind with the author adding:</p><p></p><p>"But - and this is the most depressing reason - the truth is that people don't like reading books much anyway&hellip;The music industry's problems are many and profound, but you never see advertisements asking us to listen to more music; there are no pressure groups or government quangos attempting to ensure that we make room in our day for a little Leona Lewis.</p><p></p><p>"The problem is getting people to pay for music, not getting people to consume it. Can you see every teenager in Britain harassing their parents for a Kindle? Me neither."</p><p></p><p><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/8513/s/166a241/mf.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Hornby bemused by eBooks&link=http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/hornby-bemused-by-ebooks-416830" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Hornby bemused by eBooks&link=http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/hornby-bemused-by-ebooks-416830" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/12959955965/f/8513/c/669/s/23503425/a2.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/12959955965/f/8513/c/669/s/23503425/a2.img" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/8513/s/166a241/story01.htm" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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