Presenters – Len Vlahos, Executive Director of BISG
October 2010 – ebook sales exploded.
hardcovers, paperbacks, etc – taking a huge dive at the same time
last year, the ebook curve flattened out quite a lot – it’s more incremental.
But – think of it more like a bowling average – it’s still fluctuating. Adult fiction is huge in ebook formats, other types of books not so much.
“Power buyers” are the ones buying ebooks – they buy 4 books a month, have a good income, and are younger.
What keeps people from buying ebooks?
- lack of a good eroding device – some
- difficult downloading process – some
- biggest – prefer print, and difficult to share with others
He thinks the market is maturing and becoming more predictable
Value of power buyers – 53% of books purchased, 60% of ebooks purchased
trying to compare music to books – he’s missing the point. me here – can’t really compare. There’s one format in music. There are a ton of ebook formats and devices.
Kept mentioning a maturing market – again, he’s only thinking of sales. Format-wise, ebooks is still int he betamax/8-track phase. Me here
Excellent – just said that 57% of people who borrow from the library then go out and buy – same author, same genre. So sharing does drive sales.
Next presenter – Kelly Gallagher at Bowker Market Research
What about the global ebook experience
Comment from second speaker – definitely NOT a mature market – mentioned devices. Thank you!
Gave a global view of ebook sales
Lots of people globally like free content. Go figure!
US – 59% still have no interest in digital content.
In US and other anglo countries, fiction and leisure reading is driving sales. On other countries, like Brazil or India, the professional/business genre is HUGE. They have a growing middle class, etc.
Share posts on Facebook to Gain More Readers
by David Lee King on March 6, 2012
Want to get more people reading your library blog posts? Here’s one handy way to do it – share that post on your library’s Facebook Page. Here’s what happened when I did that with one of my library’s blog posts.
So … I have a blog on my library’s website that I started in January. It’s the Digital Branch blog (I figured I’m the Branch manager, so I should have a branch manager blog. I write about web geekish stuff related to the library’s digital branch that our customers might find interesting).
One of those blogposts has gathered more pageviews that all the other digital branch blogposts combined – a post about Pinterest. So far, Google Analytics shows 137 pageviews for that post. Not too bad! I wanted more comments (because we’re working on a pilot project for a Pinterest account), so I decided to share the post on our library’s Facebook Page.
On our Facebook Page, use Facebook Insights to drill down to an individual post (really cool that you can narrow down that far!). Here are the stats for that particular Facebook post:
So of my blog post’s 137 pageviews, 68 of them, or 50%, came directly from sharing that post on our Facebook Page (Google Analytics further backs that up by showing an “Entrance” number of 70 views on that post, meaning that 70 people came directly to that post from someplace other than my library’s website – i.e., from Facebook to the blogpost).
Simple stuff – write a blogpost, then share it out using Twitter and Facebook. Ask people to comment, and they will (I received comments on the blogpost, on the Facebook post, and in Twitter). And you just might get more readers in the process.
Pic by Britta Bohlinger
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