The second day of Digital Book World began with a block of three data presentations on consumer habits with respect to ebook purchases and ereading devices. (To be clear, we have cheated: since 92 percent of conference attendees and reporters find big presentations of data hard to take in, and take down, on the fly, the three presenters let us look over their slides in advance, which is the basis of this report.) Verso Digital conducted a new survey of book acquisition habits, this time looking at both purchasing and borrowing together–in print, digital and a mixture of the two–in […]
