{"id":4388,"date":"2010-01-17T17:14:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T22:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2010-01-17T17:15:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T22:15:27","slug":"ebook-buyer-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4388","title":{"rendered":"eBook buyer statistics&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks <a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Jorgen<\/strong><\/a> for a <a title=\"BISG Survey results\" href=\"http:\/\/www.resourceshelf.com\/2010\/01\/15\/highlights-only-new-bisg-survey-tracks-book-consumers-behavior-toward-and-preferences-for-e-books\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>link<\/strong><\/a> to an article at <a title=\"Resourceshelf.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.resourceshelf.com\/2010\/01\/15\/highlights-only-new-bisg-survey-tracks-book-consumers-behavior-toward-and-preferences-for-e-books\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Resourceshelf.com<\/strong><\/a> that features highlights from a survey conducted by the <strong>Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG)<\/strong> addressing how &#8220;print book buyers access, purchase and use e-books and e-readers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s interesting news for publishers who try to manipulate the market by withholding the eBook edition to force sales of the hard cover.<\/p>\n<p>And the second interesting point that stood out for me was not all that surprising. Respondents listed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153affordability\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as the #1 reason they would purchase an eBook over a print book of the same title.<\/p>\n<p>Another VERY interesting point was 47% of those surveyed said their preferred eBook reading device was their computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;print book buyers access, purchase and use e-books and e-readers.&#8221; Two things stood out. Apparently 30% of print book buyers will wait up to three months to purchase &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4388\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4398,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}