Are eBooks Destroying Bookselling Culture?

eBooks have their downsides, aside from disrupting the traditional bookselling industry. A recent study had 28 copies of the same book distributed half in paperback format and the other half on the Amazon Kindle. Anne Mangen of Norway's Stavanger University, a lead researcher on the study said "The Kindle readers performed significantly worse on the plot reconstruction measure." The readers struggled to make sense of the key 14 plot aspects. The researchers suggest that "the haptic and tactile feedback of a Kindle does not provide the same support for mental reconstruction of a story as a print pocket book does".