The Book Industry Study Group in the US has just released the first of three parts of a Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading study and while the initial results are intriguing, my sense is that the qualification they used for survey respondents is skewing results to make it look like more people are buying or are interested in buying e-books than might actually be true.
The Mobile Internet and Thou
Morgan Stanley has made available a massive research project that looks at the rise of the mobile internet, contextualizing the research with the thesis that:
I found it instructive to read through and contemplate these ideas from an ebook perspective especially with the recent kobo news. Below are the 8 themes that emerge from the research.
Barriers to Purchasing Amazon Kindle
Kids These Days, Not So Much with the Piracy (Yar!)
Streamlining Metadata Workflow Paper
The NISO and OCLC have published a white paper on Streamlining Metadata Workflow [pdf] that looks very interesting. I haven’t had the opportunity to wade through all 22 pages yet (fun for the weekend), but it looks interesting and worth the effort.
Canada (Really!) Reads: Canadian Q1 Book Sales up 5% YoY, While US and UK Both in the Red
"The Meyer 4%": First Six Weeks of 2008 vs. 2009 Category Market Share
Table, Pie, Bar, Bubble, Scatter...
E-Books Are Coming: BNC Research Can Help
Everyone Games
The PEW Internet & American Life Project has released a study on “Adults and video games.” The study says that “Some 53% of American adults age 18 and older play video games,” and that 21% play a game everyday. That’s a lot of people playing a lot of games.
