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It just shows that you have to look closely, it is easy to be fooled by nice looking graphics. Their graphics look good until you ask "what does this mean?" The data is even worse than I thought. This would get an F in a Statistics class. They put a nonsense graph purporting to show that some cities are more "e-literate" than others, and them with that useless data produce more useless graphs. I agree, more used Kindles on Craigslist could just as easily mean that the people in that city were LESS inclined to read e-books, as they are selling their e-readers. It simply means nothing.
The data is available for how many people own Kindles, Nooks and iPads. So is sales data for e-books. It wouldn't be difficult to track the sales of e-books by platform to see if there are any trends. This crappy data makes me suspicious of any data that website produces.
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