Understanding the Ebook Consumer: The Results of the BISG Consumer Survey
Although much of the publishing industry is working hard to develop and implement digital strategies, there’s little available research that evaluates book consumers’ actual interest in and preferences for digital content, or the factors that influence their reading habits and purchasing decisions.
To fill this void, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) recently launched Consumer Attitudes toward Ebook Reading, a multitrack U.S. Census-based survey of hundreds of actual ebook readers. Three times over the course of nine months (Nov 2009 thru July 2010), ebook readers participating in the survey were, or will be, asked questions such as:
- When did you first begin acquiring ebooks?
- Where do you typically acquire ebooks?
- Which genre(s) are you more likely to read as an ebook rather than a print book?
- What device do you now use most frequently to read ebooks?
During this session, attendees can expect never-before-seen survey data from the second fielding (conducted during the first part of Feb 2009). In addition, those most closely involved with the project will share practical guidance on how one might use the data to help refine current digital strategies.
People planning to attend this session also want to see:
Angela Bole
Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Angela Bole is Deputy Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG). Based in New York City, BISG is an industry trade association working to create a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain for both digital and physical products.
Kelly Gallagher
RR Bowker
Kelly Gallagher serves as VP of Publishing Services at RR Bowker. In this role he manages the implementation of a host of Bowker business intelligence services, including the PubTrack consumer research panel reaching over 40,000 ‘e’ and ‘p’ book consumers. For the past year, he has been leading a team of researchers on a three-year initiative for the BISG to study consumer attitudes toward e-devices and digital content. This long-term trended study looks at consumers purchases on a quarterly basis as it seeks to understand the rate and shift to digital content. In addition to managing the consumer research panel, he oversees sales data collection and analytics tools for the higher education and religious book markets for Bowker. Beyond his role at Bowker, Kelly serves the book publishing industry as the Research Chair for the Book Industry Study Group.
Comments on this page are now closed.
Schedule views
For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the conference, contact Sharon Cordesse at scordesse@oreilly.com
Download the TOC Sponsor/Exhibitor Prospectus
For information on trade opportunities with O'Reilly conferences contact mediapartners@ oreilly.com
For media-related inquiries, contact Maureen Jennings at maureen@oreilly.com
To stay abreast of conference news and to receive email notification when registration opens, please sign up for the TOC newsletter (login required)
View a complete list of TOC contacts
O'Reilly Home | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | Sitemap | conf-webmaster@oreilly.com
Event Software Powered by Expectnation
© 2010, O'Reilly Media, Inc. | (707) 827-7000 / (800) 998-9938
Comments
Wasn’t able to stay for the whole presentation – wish some of the slides hadn’t been removed!
I see the presentation is now online and I thank you for that. However, I wish an announcement was made before the live presentation to alert the group that some information would be removed from the PPT presentation online. I would appreciate if all the information presented in the session would be made available to the attendees.
Thank you.
Great presentation. I would love if the PowerPoint was posted online. It was too much information to absorb on the spot. Thanks.
Wish that this presentation had had more time. Would have liked to go over the statistics more slowly as there was so much great information.