Thread: How many e-books do readers purchase?
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Old 05-18-2008, 12:22 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Bob Russell View Post
Over at Palm247, Shaun McGill asks his readers How many eBooks have you purchased?

While the question is certainly biased toward those Palm users who read e-books (the ones that read e-books and especially who buy them are most likely to reply with comments), it still is interesting in several ways:

1) So far, for number of e-books purchased, there are 6 with <100, 4 with <300, one with about 700 and another with more than a thousand. (Wow!)

2) Only one person said they read free e-books and didn't buy e-books.

3) There were several mentions of people who just prefer paper.

The big winners for the massive e-book purchases in this small sample of Palm users? Fictionwise/eReader, Baen and MobiPocket.
I tend to buy from Fictionwise, eReader, Baen and Mobipocket myself. Of course, if I owned a Kindle, I'd be buying my ebooks from Amazon, but I'm quite happy buying my Mobipocket ebooks for my Cybook.

And I'm definitely in the 500+ category as I've got over 1,000 ebooks.

Derek
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