The High Brow Readers With a Taste for Low Brow E-books
28th October 2011
But ebooks are also proving popular because they free readers from the embarrassment of being seen with the latest pulp fiction bestseller – or something more steamy – on the 8.30 train to work.
A quarter of ebook readers are too embarrassed to tell the truth about the ebooks they are reading, a poll of British readers has found.
And one in five say they would be so embarrassed by their collection that if they lost their gadget they wouldn’t claim it back.