The Book Industry Study Group has just released the third part of Volume Three of its Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading research report. Here's a summary:
- The percentage of eBook buyers that exclusively or primarily
purchase eBooks has dropped from nearly 70% last August to 60% in
May 2012.
- The percentage of survey respondents with no preference for eBook
or print formats, or who buy some genres in eBook format and others
in print, has increased from 25% last August to 34% in May.
- Amazon's Kindle Fire has overtaken the iPad as the tablet of
preference among eBook consumers. 7% of survey respondents owned a
Kindle Fire last December vs. 20% in May 2012, while iPad ownership
remained flat at 17% in both surveys. By comparison, 5% of
respondents owned a Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet in May, and 8%
owned another Android-based tablet.
- While overall use of tablets as primary eReading devices is
increasing, the changes aren't uniform across devices:
- 35% of respondents cited Amazon's Kindle eReaders as their
primary device for reading eBooks, down from 48% last August.
- Apple's iPad was cited as the primary device for reading
eBooks by 9% of respondents in May, down from 10% in February.
- Respondents who cited Barnes & Noble's Nook tablets and
eReaders as their primary device for reading eBooks declined from
17% last August to 13% in May.
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