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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What I don't get is with all the Kobo's, nooks, and Kindles out there, why aren't more people previewing their eBook on an eInk screen to see how it looks? A computer screen or a tablet just isn't close enough to tell if it's going to work on eInk and that goes for Kindle Previewer as well.
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According to the "reading stats" at ebookcraft talks the past few years, e-ink is in the small minority of readers (<15%). Vast majority are reading on tablets/phones (with phones consistently growing immensely).
Side Note: I personally think their stats are skewed, but since I don't have my own to back this up... I'm in the MobileRead e-ink bubble just like many of us.
A lot of things I think are common knowledge are not. Like you wouldn't believe, when I visited one of the publishers I do a lot of work for, most of the workers there STILL had no idea what an EPUB/MOBI was. And according to their server stats, >90% of downloads were still PDF, AND if there's only EPUB/MOBI, they get lots of emails from people demanding PDF versions of ebooks... preposterous!!!
(And this site is aimed towards a younger crowd, high school + college age... you would think these people are more technically savvy!!!)
People might know "I read on a Kindle", but they have no idea what MOBI or sideloading is (they just click on the buy button on Amazon and poof, it magically appears).
And PDF is a "known format", people have been seeing it for decades, so they instantly recognize that. The general public still has no idea what an EPUB/MOBI is.