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UK eBook sales soar in first half of 2012
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09-18-2012, 03:07 AM | #2 | |
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That's certainly been my experience. Getting my Kobo has reinvigorated my reading. I hadn't been reading on paper, but now I read e-books every night. |
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Yes, I found it interesting that there'd been such a very large rise in eBook sales, but a negligible fall in pBook sales. That would seem to indicate an overall rise in book buying, which is good news for the industry. It does seem, though, reading the rest of the article, that physical bookshops are really struggling.
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09-18-2012, 08:33 AM | #4 |
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Impulse buying is hugely enabled when you own an ereader. Pushing a button to purchase a "weightless" book that takes up no room in your house, that you can hide from your spouse/parent, etc. - takes away the "guilt" or logic of asking yourself - "do I really want another book?"
This buying is confined to ereaders - which probably explains the (at least initial) lack of impact on pbook sales. I remember reading an interview with Colin Powell in the NYT Book Review - where he admitted he has "hundreds" of books on his Kindle that he doesn't even remember buying. |
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Electronic reading will create enormous markets, capturing people who ordinarily never set foot in a bookstore. Both writers and publishers are set to make huge sums from this transition over the next decade.
Yet we're still saddled with restrictive DRM to "protect" the industry. |
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With ereaders, smartphones and tablets that has changed so someone that might read a 10-12 books a year with easy access to larger book collection might read 20-30. Its the same with video games many people enjoy games but carrying around separate device or actually using a console or pc to play is too much for most of them so they don't but now the ability to play games on your phones has upended the gaming market because of large number of casual gamers. |
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How long do you think it will take before electronic books are a simple majority of all books sold in the UK, where ebooks account for at least 51% of all books? I am guessing that on this side of the pond it will be at least 2014.
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09-19-2012, 08:28 AM | #12 |
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From personal experience, my reading habits were pretty much stale before I got myself a smartphone and got into ebooks. Then it soared.
The thing is not about having a book always available to you. It's more about having a library always available to you, right there in your pocket. It's something very powerful and compelling to a generation fed on short-term fun as TV toons and series and games. You may be reading a book but not into the right mood for it at the moment: no problem, just browse another one, now a short tale, then perhaps some poetry or a philosophy treatise. You can't have that bringing 1 pbook in your bag. |
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