Quote:
Originally Posted by John F
Are there any numbers available on ebook/readering habits that point to eink devices being niche?
|
Since the real figures are kept secret for reasons of commercial confidentiality, we can only make educated guesses. And world-wide figures are even more tricky. Perhaps we can have a go at USA figures.
Perhaps the best guessers, because they also use as much data that's available as possible, is the author earnings website.
According to Author Earnings, 12% of ebooks sold are from the Apple iBook Store. Apple don't do an eInk reader, so essentially all of those books will be read on on phones/tablets.
But 71% are sold by Amazon. Whether eInk is 'niche' for ebook reading really depends on the reading stats for books sold at Amazon.
And I don't think Amazon tells anyone. Although they almost certainly have a very good idea.