Last week, I asked you to vote in my e-Reader polls. I’ve now compared those results to the polls I took last November. This time, about 28% more votes were counted, so I’ll compare the results in percentages.
In November, only 38% of you said you owned an e-Reader. That’s grown to 76% … exactly double in less than a year. Evidently, these gadgets are catching on. 🙂 Of particular interest to me is that the percentage of voters who said they NEVER want to own one has dropped from 28% to 5% in that time. Is this just peer pressure or have more people decided that e-Readers are not the devil in disguise?
The percentage of you who read e-Books on your smartphones had more than doubled—from 21% to 45%. And of course, many of us have an e-Reader, plus use an app on our smartphones for making good use of a few minutes waiting in line or traffic.
Here’s how the two polls compare on which e-Readers we own:
| e_Reader | November 2010 | July 2011 |
| Kindle | 41% | 64% |
| Nook | 3% | 14% |
| iPad | 2% | 17% |
| Sony | 1% | 5% |
| Kobo | 0% | 0% |
Interesting that both times not one person who visits my blog owns a Kobo. Poor Border’s. Obviously, Kindle is still far in the lead, but iPad, Nook and Sony have risen in popularity.
I love the convenience of e-Books, but I don’t think print books will disappear for some time. What do you think?
Linda Cassidy Lewis 