With the current controversies and competition involving ebook prices and devices, your experiences and views as a reader are of great interest to other readers and to authors, publishers, booksellers, journalists, investors and those who follow what is going on in the book business. In our last two surveys (April 2009 and October 2009), we've had extremely high levels of participation and attracted the interest of all the primary players.
With your participation in the current survey, we hope to help Amazon, authors and publishers, and others see more clearly than ever what's important to readers as we enter a new decade. I've limited this survey to 10 questions, but I hope you will also feel free to use the comment areas to say whatever needs saying. Future Kindle Nation Daily posts will provide detailed reports on your responses, but your confidentiality and privacy will always remain well-guarded. (If you'd prefer to have your name included with your comments, please indicate this specifically in the body of your comment.)
Two notes about tiny glitches in the survey:
- The "comments" area only appears on survey questions 1-5. Please feel free to email any additional comments to kindlenation@gmail.com.
- Please ignore the "Most likely" column at the far right-hand of survey questions 8 and 10.
Thanks for your cooperation!
5 comments:
I totally understand that e-books are a business, and that authors and publishers deserve to be paid.
However,for most people, discretionary spending is not unlimited. We, as consumers, will have to decide who gets our hard-earned dollars. I will lean towards rewarding those that show the most care for their customers.
Stephen,
Interesting and Thought provoking survey. One question: What is with the "Most Likely" selection when the other selections were about like or dislike? Just seemed a bit odd.
I do enjoy reading through your blog most every day. Thanks for taking the time and making the effort to provide such timely information.
Dave Deitrick
Thanks, David, and yes, that's a "human error" glitch:
Two notes about tiny glitches in the survey:
The "comments" area only appears on survey questions 1-5. Please feel free to email any additional comments to kindlenation@gmail.com.
Please ignore the "Most likely" column at the far right-hand of survey questions 8 and 10.
I don't know how much help I was, as I've only been a Kindle owner for a little more than a week, but I took the survey, Steve. Had to take it twice today, as it crashed on the last page for me right after I finished it.
Steve, I would be interested to know if there is a way to find out what kind of a margin publishers make on physical books versus ebooks, as I would imagine it is much higher in digital format even at the $9.99 price point. Charging ebook consumers to make up for lost sales on hardbacks is simply unacceptable, manufacture less hardbacks and adapt to the changing market, don't make the consumer absorb the costs of your misjudgment of the changing market.
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