{"id":128,"date":"2013-08-03T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2013\/08\/03\/what-do-readers-like-survey-results\/"},"modified":"2013-08-03T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T16:00:00","slug":"what-do-readers-like-survey-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2013\/08\/03\/what-do-readers-like-survey-results\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do Readers Like? Survey Results!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-bookformattingfairies.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">E-book Formatting Fairies<\/a> conducted a fascinating survey:<\/p>\n<div>I\u2019ve recently concluded the first of what I hope will be a regular reader survey. Putting a finger on the pulse of the customer is always a good idea in business, and our business is no exception. I drafted the questions with the help and input of numerous other authors who took advantage of the opportunity to ask some of their most burning questions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The survey was conducted from June 1-30, 2013, via Survey Monkey, and as many as 2,951 people replied to most of the 44 questions formulated by myself and more than a dozen other authors.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>To summarize the most interesting results\u2026<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Readers prefer e-books to paperbacks (77 to 52 percent). However, the question allowed readers to choose <i>all formats that apply<\/i>, and there appears to be crossover between the two most popular formats, indicating some readers buy books in multiple formats when the paperback is available. I think it\u2019s extremely interesting to note that <i>more than half<\/i> are still looking for their books in paperback. That will be a number to watch in future surveys. Will it go down or remain steady at about half?<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 80 percent buy their books from Amazon, with Barnes &amp; Noble scoring a distant second at 23 percent and iBookstore\/Apple coming in third at nearly 13 percent. I\u2019ll be interested to see how this result changes or shifts over the next year. I believe first place will remain around the same percentage while the distance between second and third place will continue to narrow.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 58 percent of those surveyed have not visited a brick and mortar bookstore in the last year or have done so twice in the last year. Twenty-five percent visit a bookstore once a month and twenty percent are there twice a month or more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s the most popular genre? What percentage of readers care about who publishes a book? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-bookformattingfairies.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest <\/a>to find out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-book Formatting Fairies conducted a fascinating survey: I\u2019ve recently concluded the first of what I hope will be a regular reader survey. Putting a finger on the pulse of the customer is always a good idea in business, and our business is no exception. I drafted the questions with the help and input of numerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-of-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}