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TGS · 03-04-2010, 04:44 AM

I'm new to ereaders - got my IREX DR800 about three weeks ago - and newish to MR. But in the short time that I've been involved what's become interesting is the geographical spread of ereaders. I'm a Brit living in Denmark and here they seem to be as rare as hen's teeth. I was recently in the UK and expected to see a wide range of readers in every consumer electronics shop on the high street - but I was wrong. There are a few about but not a huge range in any one place. I even went into a Sony store and asked when they were expecting the Daily Edition - they had never heard of it!

What I was wondering was whether the clever people who run MobileRead had easy access to stats about the geographical locations of members. Whilst this is not the same as the geographical spread of devices it might stand as some kind of proxy for that.

If this is a dumb question to ask - or it would take a lot of faffing around to get the info - sorry. I was just interested in what sort of phenomenon this is.

03-04-2010, 04:44 AM	#1
TGS Country Member Posts: 9,058 Karma: 7676767 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Denmark Device: Liseuse: Irex DR800. PRS 505 in the house, and the missus has an iPad.	Geographical Spread I'm new to ereaders - got my IREX DR800 about three weeks ago - and newish to MR. But in the short time that I've been involved what's become interesting is the geographical spread of ereaders. I'm a Brit living in Denmark and here they seem to be as rare as hen's teeth. I was recently in the UK and expected to see a wide range of readers in every consumer electronics shop on the high street - but I was wrong. There are a few about but not a huge range in any one place. I even went into a Sony store and asked when they were expecting the Daily Edition - they had never heard of it! What I was wondering was whether the clever people who run MobileRead had easy access to stats about the geographical locations of members. Whilst this is not the same as the geographical spread of devices it might stand as some kind of proxy for that. If this is a dumb question to ask - or it would take a lot of faffing around to get the info - sorry. I was just interested in what sort of phenomenon this is.