02-12-2010, 06:11 PM | #76 |
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Thought I would promote this.
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02-13-2010, 03:49 PM | #77 | |
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And making the email mandatory was a bad call. *: I did the survery a couple of days ago but had to search for my login credentials to MR. I like to lurk, sorry. |
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03-01-2010, 07:07 PM | #78 |
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I'm not sure if Jane will remember to post the results here, so I'll do it for her:
http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2010...ts-and-winner/ |
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Hopefully some proactive person will convert that excel to a webpage with graphs. I don't have powerpoint and the excel crashed my MS office. |
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03-01-2010, 07:55 PM | #80 |
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I'm taking a look at it now. I love playing with excel and don't mind cleaning it up.
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03-01-2010, 08:30 PM | #81 |
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Here's some data I've got so far:
AGE: Out of 2724 423 said 18-25 469 said 26-30 757 said 31-39 638 said 40-49 335 said 50-59 82 said 60-69 6 said 70-79 2 said 80-89 (both are retired, thank goodness!) 1 said 90-99 (consultant as a career?) 11 said under 18 Great responses for how long they’ve been reading: 1968: "A fat cat sat on the flat mat." They don't write 'em like that anymore. Since God was a boy (General consensus here was pretty much since how long they could actually read) 2087 (again, out of 2724) read Romance (although this may be skewed since it was hosted by a romance blog) 2150 read Science Fiction/Fantasy 1774 read Mystery 2032 read General Fiction 1710 read Non Fiction 263 buy 11 or more new books a month 1312 buy 1 to 5 656 said 6-10 27 say they don’t buy new books Someone put they “win books” 880 buy 1-5 USED books per month 221 buy 6-10 98 buy 11 or more Out of 2724 responders: 2496 buy online (paper or digital) 2033 buy at brick and mortar 1201 buy at independent store 1536 buy at second hand bookstore 12 don’t buy books (one of these said they don’t buy new books, nor used books) 928 buy more ebooks than print books 1411 buy more print books than ebooks 342 buy roughly the same of each 2302 read ebooks, 341 don’t (81 blanks) 2318 know what DRM means (325 no, 81 blanks) 554 Prefer buying the ebook if the print is offered all of the time, 639 most of the time, 792 rarely, and 658 sometimes 1869 said ebooks are priced to high 28 said too low 746 said just right (81 blanks) Complaints about ebooks 1355 – Cost 821 – Quality 1587 – Unable to share/borrow 375 – technical proficiency required to use 1020 – Selection |
03-01-2010, 08:50 PM | #82 |
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The most people would pay for an ebook:
42 said $30.99 46 said $25.99 195 said $19.99 485 said $15.99 1329 said 9.99 546 said $5.99 Would you pay more if you could share with friends? 584 said yes 1566 said No, because they don’t want to pay more to share 474 said no because they don’t share books with friends 822 said they would pay more if they could resell the ebook, 1809 said no. 1835 said they read on a desktop computer 526 sad Kindle 99 said nook 502 said Sony 120 said other eink device 649 said iPhone/iTouch 54 said Android 92 said Blackberry 310 said other handheld device 137 said other ebook reader 2089 bought their ebook reader themselves, 522 got it as a gift OK i'm tired now... |
03-02-2010, 10:38 AM | #83 |
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Thank you for posting the results. I do plan to put together a PDF with pie charts but it will have to be after March.
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03-02-2010, 10:51 AM | #84 |
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I put together an autofilter on the spreadsheet, which will be fun to sort through the data and see if there's anything interesting for certain types of users. One thing I noticed last night was that all people who put librarian as their profession read on their desktop.
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03-02-2010, 08:45 PM | #85 |
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Huh. Only 586 (+171 blanks) have removed DRM from their purchases. Different audience as mentioned above? People not admitting it?
And there are a lot of Nulls for the question "I would reduce or eliminate my downloading of ebook files I have not paid for if one or more of the following events would take place". Lots are desktop users too. Correlation to the downloading of potentially illegal copies? (Sorry for cherry-picking some of the results, lilac_jive. I just wanted to see if my replies survived NoScript [they did \o/] and couldn't help myself) Last edited by Ramen; 03-02-2010 at 08:47 PM. Reason: Typos... (It's 2:45 AM) |
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03-05-2010, 10:07 AM | #88 |
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And there are a lot of Nulls for the question "I would reduce or eliminate my downloading of ebook files I have not paid for if one or more of the following events would take place". Lots are desktop users too. Correlation to the downloading of potentially illegal copies?
I presume others left this blank, as I did, because they have never downloaded an ebook illegally. |
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