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Codex Group ‘tablets killing e-books’ report revisited

Codex Group ‘tablets killing e-books’ report revisited

Last month, I covered Codex Group President Peter Hildick-Smith’s presentation at BookExpo America on the impact decreasing e-ink reader use is having on e-book purchasing. Now Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly has picked up the same report Hildick-Smith discussed, with a few different details and some of the charts from that report.

As I noted in the BEA report, Hildick-Smith believes that many…

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Sixty-one percent of book purchases by frequent book buyers take place online, but only seven percent of those buyers said they discovered that book online, while physical book stores account for 39 percent of units sold and 20 percent of discovery share.

Laura Hazard Owen's analysis of a new survey from the Codex Group tracking book discovery, presented last week at Digital Book World. The big concern is what happens when those bricks-and-mortar shops dwindle. Of course, libraries have always been a place of (mostly uncredited and undocumented) discovery, but OPAC integration (enabled by 3M via collaborations with Polaris and Bibliocommons) could change that. So could a simple change of attitude on the behalf of librarians, publishers, journalists, and consumers.

I love what Stephanie Chase of the Seattle Public Library said on Twitter: 

@huiscebeatha isn't it good if people come to us 1st for GONE GIRL, say, even if we then help them buy it online or send them to the bkstore

— Stephanie Chase (@acornsandnuts) January 18, 2013