Thanks Jorgen for a link to an article at Resourceshelf.com that features highlights from a survey conducted by the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) addressing how “print book buyers access, purchase and use e-books and e-readers.”
Two things stood out. Apparently 30% of print book buyers will wait up to three months to purchase the eBook edition of a book by a favorite author. That’s interesting news for publishers who try to manipulate the market by withholding the eBook edition to force sales of the hard cover.
And the second interesting point that stood out for me was not all that surprising. Respondents listed “affordability†as the #1 reason they would purchase an eBook over a print book of the same title.
Another VERY interesting point was 47% of those surveyed said their preferred eBook reading device was their computer.
