Remember that Survey we did back when?

Back in May we ran a survey about ereaders and shared the results in three installments.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

I am now working to put them all together on one page (up there at the top) for your viewing convenience. We hope it helps you find your ebook reader!

Survey results part 4

It's apparent by the results that word of mouth is a HUGE factor in deciding what books to buy. Having a good browsing experience to find new stuff becomes important in such cases, since once you find the book, you are likely to want to find similar stuff.

Favorite feature of the ereaders? Portability across the board. Having a library at your fingertips, handy for when you want to have a few books available while you are traveling, and don't want to carry around bulky books in your carry on.


In contrast, the least favorite features were the cost of the ebooks, the lack of a backlight on the Kindle, and not being able to take the iPad in the sun. Another problem mentioned was the fact that ebook readers are much easier to break than paperbacks.


It's interesting to see that once an ereader has been purchased, people tend to stick with its built-in book store. It is hard to get anything other then Kindle books on a Kindle, and it has such a huge selection it makes sense to buy from them. The iPad can swing both ways. Well, more than that. Every reading format is supported. With programs like Calibre, it makes it easier to buy any format, then convert to the format of your choice. I also like when a company's like Smashwords and O'Reilly offer the book in multiple formats. So you are free to grab the version of your choice.



So that about summarizes things up. Our thanks to the many that participated. 

Survey Results--Part 3

Today I want to show the last two pie charts, because they are so pretty to look at ... Umm, wait. Because they are a great way to show results. We'll save the textual results for part 4, where for instance, you will see what the most and least favorite features are.

Now, let's have some more pie!

For the most part, it seems pretty easy to load up the reader. Seems the companies have done their job.

This one surprised me. When iBooks first came out, highlighting was a feature that was missing. However it was available on the Kindle reader for iPad. It took one or two updates to get that feature into iBooks. It's a feature I just can't do with out. But I guess it depends on the type of book you are reading. For a fiction novel, it doesn't make so much sense, but for a technical book, it makes all the sense in the world. 47% like the annotations, but 61% use it for recreational reading. So perhaps people like to highlight their favorite passages from their fiction books as I like to highlight important parts of a technical book.

Survey Results--Part 2

Purchasing ebooks

ebook Readers

Look for the rest of the resulsts coming soon!

Survey Winners and Results--Part 1

Results are in! Congratulations to the winners, you have been notified via email.

And now onto the Survey Results. We'll be releasing them in installments over the next few days.



Introductions

It would seem that most of you are between 31 and 40:

Even split between brainiacs and the average Joe:

ebooks

People still like to buy dead trees. They really are pretty aren't they? Nothing like showing off your fav books. The folks at Apple know this, as the presentation of your ebook collection is a book shelf. Perfect.

Most people are building their collection as they go. Makes sense. But I sure do love filling up my cyber shelves :)

Not many have replaced their books with ebooks. I wonder if it would have made a difference if you were able to upgrade the print to ebook? Most of my technical books were O'Reilly, and they have an excellent replacement plan. If you have the print, you can get the ebook for a huge discount.

Stay tuned for more results on Monday!