busyThe title of the first one is misleading, but it has some interesting numbers inside it.
Every Book -- 10,000 Copies Stolen
Fiction titles were actually among the least affected titles, with an average of around 6,000 copies downloaded per title; business and investing titles were the category most likely to be illegally downloaded, with over 13,000 per title.
The second article compares ebook to print purchases.
20% of Digital Book Buyers Drop Print
Twenty percent of digital book buyers surveyed by the Book Industry Study Group had stopped buying print editions in the previous year, according to highlights of BISG’s Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading the study released last week. We’re not sure what’s more significant in those results--that 20% had stopped buying print, or that 80% hadn’t. At the other end of the spectrum, 81% of respondents said they purchased e-books only “rarely” or ‘occasionally.”
20% of digital book buyers drop print
January 24 2010, 04:33:26 UTC 11 years ago
the 20% figure for adopters of digital books seems in line with acceleration of end product users as commercial products catch on. in the auto industry, 10% penetration came by 1910, 50% by 1921 and 90% by 1928. for the internet, it was 10 percent by 1996, 50 percent by 2001. see this website for how such things catch on: http://www.hsdent.com/s-curve/
JBB, alias johntheunc
Re: 20% of digital book buyers drop print
January 24 2010, 04:47:43 UTC 11 years ago