Re: ebook reader market share report

If you're going to trash it, you might want to at least check the available
information.

http://www.bowker.com/en-US/aboutus/press_room/2012/pr_11142012.shtml


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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