Ebook Trends: The Year of Living Digitally
The BISG study also provides insights into the book genres most affected by the ebook format. Fiction, particularly “guilty pleasure” fiction (e.g., mystery, romance) shows a rise in ebook popularity corresponding to the dominance of dedicated e-readers through mid-2011. However, while general fiction ebooks seem to have tapered off with the rise of tablets, other fiction types appear to be recovering as ebook-preferred genres. (See Table 2.)
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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.