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- by Tara Maya
General NaNoWriMo Stats Round Up
General NaNoWriMo Stats Round Up
For NaNoWriMo main:
◦ 341,375 participants, up a whopping 33% from 2011’s total of 256,618 writers.
◦ We wrote a grand total of 3,288,976,325 words, up 7% from 2011’s 3,074,068,446.
◦ This averaged out to 9364 words per person!
◦ We had 38,438 winners, giving us a 11% win rate!
For NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program:
◦ 97,864 participants, up 21% from 2011’s total of 81,040. (Edited to correct an error in numbers!)
◦ We wrote a total of 419,152,844 words up 14% from 2011’s collective word count of 368,143,078.
◦ This averaged out to 5,077 words per person.
◦ We had 18,531 winners, giving us a 22% win rate!
This November, OLL had 37,120,542 pageviews, and a total of 5,939,711 visits: up 10% from 2011’s 5,384,040 visits!
Top 10 NaNoWriMo Cities (according to Google Analytics, based on number of November visits from these fine places)
1. London 118,030
2. New York 90,055
3. (not set) 72,912 (Probably Atlanta?)
4. Seattle 58,670
5. Toronto 52,686
6. Sydney 51,498
7. Chicago 49,290
8. Melbourne 44,689
9. Los Angeles 43,511
10. Denver 41,574
- by Tara Maya
Kobo On The Rise
(Forbes) Kobo is the major player in the ebook world that you’ve never heard of.
You’ve probably never heard of it because in the U.S. it is thought to have something like a 2% or 3% share in the growing ebook market. In Canada, however, where the company is based, it’s thought to be the market-share leader. It was acquired near the end of last year byRakuten, a company considered the “Amazon of Japan,” and hasstarted to build an ebook business there (for what it’s worth: a hard-to-crack market that isn’t promising for ebook publishersdespite being one of the largest economies in the world with a very literate and technological population). In other countries, like theUK, South Africa and New Zealand, Kobo has a presence and is one of the only international players. Kobo is now in more than a dozen countries and is aggressively adding more.
This little upstart from Canada is trying to compete with the likes of Amazon,Google, Apple and Barnes & Noble….
