Ebook Trends: The Year of Living Digitally
7. Apple iPad users can read non-iBooks content on each company’s respective reader app, but they must purchase ebooks via the Web, thanks to Apple’s restrictive in-app purchasing requirements.
8. In August, Kobo and the ABA announced a program to promote and sell Kobo ebooks in independent bookstores (bit.ly/PsFctH). However, according to the latest BISG research, Kobo’s ereader app is only installed on 1.8% of respondents’ devices, compared with 52.4% for the Kindle app. Current ownership of “other” e-reading devices, including both Sony and Kobo, is at 3.1%.
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- John Parsons
John Parsons (john@intuideas.com), former Editorial Director of The Seybold Report, is an independent writer, ghostwriter, and editor. He is the co-author of the interactive printed textbook, Introduction to Graphic Communication, on the art, science and business of print, which has been adopted by Ryerson, Arizona State, the University of Houston, and many other schools and vocational training centers. Custom editions of the book are under consideration by major printing companies and franchises for internal training purposes.