Re: ebook reader market share report

[email protected] Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:40:14 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.e-books.gutenberg.volunteers
Organization A Book of Quotations
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On Tuesday, 11th December 2012 at 22:31:32 (GMT -0800), James Adcock wrote:

> http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/devices/article/54705-kindle-share-of-e-book-reading-at-55.html

> Note that this report says that only 6% of readers use their computers
> to read ebooks. Another 6% use an iPhone or a smart phone.


This is a good example why Mark Twain was right when he said that
there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.

I read e-books on hardware Kindles, *and* on the iPad, *and* on the iPhone.
So where does that put me in the table? Nowhere. I find it very hard
to believe that only 6% of people read e-books on smartphones nowadays.
The actual figure, I suspect, is much higher -- it's just that if the survey
only gave them one option to choose as their answer, most respondents
likely stated the device that they use for reading e-books *most frequently*
(but not exclusively).

-- 
Yours,
Alex.
www.aboq.org

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