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Book Industry SG highlights e-book "power buyers"

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The latest Book Industry Study Group (BISG) reports  new Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading research study with items below, and more. Interesting reading for e-book authors and publishers.   

1. Income is a more important factor than discretionary time; those earning greater than $50K annually buy higher proportion of e-books.
2. Urban readers buy the most e-books although rural buyers say they benefit more from the easy access in this format.
3. Is Amazon's Kindle e-book reader still the dominant e-device or is the Barnes & Noble Nook device gaining share?
4. Retirees  buy fewer e-books than fully employed e-readers.

Learn about the "Power Buyers" of e-books in the

newest fielding of the Book Industry Study Group's (BISG's) latest Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading research study.

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Predictions, News, Rumors about Books and E-books

Whew! Think about this!

"...Kindle’s domination of e-book readers seems to be at an end. Credit Suisse predicts that over the next five years Amazon’s 90 percent of e-book market share will drop to 35 percent. That’s because Apple and Google are muscling in with snappier readers (the iPad) and the easy-to-access, direct e-book downloader, Google Editions. Assuming Apple and Google are successful, these three powerhouses will soon be splitting the market roughly evenly. Should Amazon be worried? Should publishers?" - Source: National Book Network/Book Sense. 

What does this have to do with us? Many authors are going with POD through Amazon.com. Maybe that's a good idea, if done after lots of research and strategies about advantages and use, now and into the future. What to believe? Rumor, news,  hope...predictions of downfall and uprising. We'll wait actively and try to stay informed. Check out ForeWord, Book Sense, Publishers Weekly and other sources of publishing and book-selling news-regularly.