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Old 10-22-2015, 11:54 AM   #1
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CTV reports on e-book sales decline
For those who are interested: A link to the report.
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Old 10-22-2015, 11:59 AM   #2
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I refuse to even consider believing a word they say, until these "reports" stop unabashedly ignoring whole acknowledged sectors of the market.

Where does BookNet Canada get their data from, hmmm?

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Why is this happening?

“I just don’t get the same satisfaction out of reading as I do when I have a real book in my hands,” says reader Lisa Hahn.
Are they that shameless, to spout such obvious nonsense as that?
I'm sure people were claiming they just didn't get the same satisfaction out of riding a horseless carriage as they got out of riding a horse-drawn carriage, too.
And so on back and forth through history, and the history of societal innovation and change.
It is extremely... unlikely... that such people make up a statistically significant percentage of the population.
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Old 10-22-2015, 12:11 PM   #3
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Where does BookNet Canada get their data from, hmmm?
From the report...
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In March and July of 2015, BookNet Canada circulated an online survey to individuals who had purchased a minimum of one book, regardless of format, in the prior month...


Here's a link to BookNet Canada's actual report.

http://issuu.com/booknetcanada/docs/...49060/30427174
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Old 10-22-2015, 12:20 PM   #4
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Here's a link to BookNet Canada's actual report.

http://issuu.com/booknetcanada/docs/...49060/30427174
Can you summarize that for me? It appears to be a flash videogame...
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So its a self-selected sample on an online website?
Oohhh-kaayyyy....

Then there's this:

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BookNet Canada is a non-profit organization that develops technology, standards, and education to serve the Canadian book industry. Founded in 2002 to address systemic challenges in the industry, BookNet Canada supports publishing companies, booksellers, wholesalers, distributors, sales agents, and libraries across the country.
More at the source:

http://www.booknetcanada.ca/about-us/

Pbookers to the core.
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What are Canadians reading?

Crime and thriller fiction tops the list followed by fantasy-science fiction, general fiction, cookbooks and historical fiction, according to BookNet Canada.
This seems strange to me. Is SF/fantasy really that popular in Canada? Romance doesn't even make the list?
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This seems strange to me. Is SF/fantasy really that popular in Canada? Romance doesn't even make the list?
It's number ten on the list in the report (page 11).
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My online sources tell me that ebook downloads are up by 1000% from yesterday.
Source: Cindy's 4th Kindle.

Hey it makes as much sense as that online website.
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1 book yesterday, 11 today.
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It's number ten on the list in the report (page 11).
Okay I see, they are asking people what categories they read in, rather than asking what books they read and assigning the publisher's category. That might explain why general literary fiction is more popular than romance:
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i do not know why I do but here my idea and my forecast

my idea
the problems are three, in order of importance
1) Lack of culture- there is no general marketing to induce consumers to use ebooks
the sad truth is that a a really laaarge percentage of people think that ereaders are the ipad with the inbuilt reading program. (why everybody knows whatsapp? )
2)Lack of investment in R&D by manufacturers worried by the sales of their books and not the hardware- big companies are not willingly to offer killing features
3) Lack of interest in making the price of the ebook affordable- people do not like they want to become rich, and not accept the idea of intellecctual propriety seeing not reasonable the gap between hard copy and a download.

forecasts 3 years: ebook will not die - when you read digital paper no way to go back if not for narcisism or reasons of collections.ebook is the way to read outside a big house, the problem is that Ms I_Bring_Only_One_Book_When_I_Go_Out, never tried the beauty and the yummy advantages to own an ereader for 3 months.
when apple and google will make double eink telephones, will start also tablets and the mass market will know eink technology and ebook sales will become amazing again
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If romance is coming in tenth on their genre list, their sample is not remotely close to being representative of the market.
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If romance is coming in tenth on their genre list, their sample is not remotely close to being representative of the market.
Romance readers are too busy reading to find, much less fill, an online questionnaire.
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I bought an ebook about declining ebook sales.
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I bought an ebook about declining ebook sales.
I wanted to buy the ebook but it was three times the price of the hardback, so I bought the hardback.
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