Not exact matches
In an April 5 research note, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster suggested that, based on his
survey of 448 iPad
buyers soon after the device's release, some 74 percent of iPad purchasers intended to use the device for surfing the Web, while another 38 percent planned to use it to read
ebooks; another 34 percent said «Email,» 26 percent said «Watching Video,» 18 percent said «Playing Games and Apps,» and 8 percent said «Listening to Music.»
In 2013, Nielsen's Books & Consumers
survey shows that among U.S.
buyers of adult fiction and nonfiction, 25 % of book
buyers bought an
eBook and 31 % of new books purchased in adult fiction and nonfiction were
eBooks.
When it comes to format preferences among book
buyers in Canada, consumer
surveys conducted with 966 book - buying Canadians during the first six months of 2017 show a 3 % increase in the number of
ebooks purchased versus the same period in 2016.
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Perhaps the most interesting takeaway from the
survey is the positive attitude book
buyers have towards
eBooks.
Mark Coker, of Smashwords, shared the results of a
survey he did on How
Ebook Buyers Discover Books, where he «challenged readers to select the single most common criterion they follow to discover their next read.»
31 % of Canadian
ebook buyers we
surveyed in 2015 exclusively purchase
ebooks, while 61 % of all
buyers (all formats) purchase both print and
ebooks interchangeably; preferring some genres in
ebook format and others in print.