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Comment author: jkaufman 15 February 2015 04:20:11PM 1 point [-]

People are pretty attached to things being the way they've always been. White on black could leave readers feeling better, but manufacturers would still default to black on white because that's what seems normal to people from printed books.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 15 February 2015 07:41:37PM 0 points [-]

Ergonomics people have actually studied this.