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Originally Posted by ishish
Hey everyone, I just wanted to mention a new site we are launching today called eReaderChoice.com. Its basically a way to stack up some of the popular eReaders against each other. The one feature that I think you all might find most useful is the ability to check book availability across readers in an easy to use grid.
We also ran some numbers on about 500 books in prize-winning lists such as the pulitzer, hugo, nebula, etc. You can check it out at ereaderchoice.com, and look at the best seller lists.
Here is a summary of results:
Of 504 books:
191 were available on Kindle
167 were available on the Nook (through the B&N store)
175 were available on the Sony (through the Sony eBook store).
Average prices:
for Kindle were $9.01
for Nook $8.47
for Sony $11.05
The other interesting thing was the standard deviation around pricing. There was a lot more variation for Sony books (standard deviation was 4.6) whereas the Amazon books had a variation of 1.64 and Nook 2.77.
Anyway please get more details at www.ereaderchoice.com and run your own searches! After a while I'll compile another list of numbers and report back with what I find based on an aggregate of everyone's searches.
Thanks!
Ish
(co-creator eReaderChoice.com) |
Hi Ish,
This is useful, but...
... there is one vitally important question. In what way - if any - are you taking regional restrictions into account? Eg, if you have a Kindle and you live outside the USA, the range of eBooks available to you is dramatically less than it is if you live in the USA. Also, the Sony Store is really only relevent to people in the USA; if you live in the UK and you own a Sony, you're far more likely to buy your books from Waterstones or W.H. Smiths.
I don't mean to be critical, but all too often surveys such as yours look only at the USA and ignore the vast majority of people who live elsewhere.