MacFadyen, Heather2011-06-172011-06-172011-03-31MacFadyen, H. (2011). The Reader’s Devices: The Affordances of Ebook Readers. Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 7, 1-15.http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13823Print books and ebook devices now co-exist in a reading eco-system. The ways in which readers understand and describe their experience of reading on ebook devices is shaped by long-established cultural expectations about the abstract as well as the physical affordances of the print book. Ebook devices cannot help but challenge those expectations. A review of readers’ reactions to the emergence of ebook devices offers a glimpse into the complex cultural position of both the idea and the experience of reading.enEbooksEbook readersReading experienceText