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  Only nine percent of Brits approve of News Corp. takeover of BSkyB, but will it matter?

  1425 readersA poll released this weekend by YouGov, a London-based public opinion survey company shows that only nine percent of those surveyed thought the proposed News Corp. bid to take over full ownership of BSkyB should go forward, while 70 percent were opposed. But will public opinion really matter? If this were the U.S. involved the answer

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  26% of Kindle Fire Buyers Put Off an iPad Purchase

  1266 readersChangewave, a market research company, has just released the results of its latest survey into consumer gadget buying. Much to no one’s surprise, Kindle Fire buyers will be putting off the purchase of other gadgets after they by the Kindle Fire. The survey data comes from a poll conducted in October, only a few weeks after

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  Only Girly-girls Own Tablets

  1257 readersWhile the headline might seem silly, a recent Neilsen survey shows it’s actually true (to some degree). Neilsen has just released data from polls it conducted this summer. The results show that a significantly percentage of tablet owners are women. As lat as last fall, slightly less than half of tablet owners were women. The most

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  E-readers expected to be popular gift this Christmas; iPads, not so much

  1219 readersThe New York Times suggests that this is going to be the “tipping point” holiday season for e-book readers. Though Kindles have been hot Christmas gifts over the last couple of years, this is the first season that e-readers are going to be widely available for under $150 (and indeed, under $100 in some cases).

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  8% of French Have Read an eBook

  2154 readersResults were released from an Ipsos/Livres Hebdo survey yesterday which showed that 61% of respondents had heard of eBooks, and about 8% had read one. This poll was based on a survey group of 3,000 French consumers, and was conducted a couple months ag...

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  E-ink Rated Most Viable Screen Tech in Recent Study

  754 readers It looks like E-ink isn’t just my favorite screen tech company. Lux Research, an investment advisory firm, recently rated the leading screen technology companies. Based a criterion of age, business acumen, Lux plotted 20 companies on the chart at right. Now, the chart is intended to show which companies would make the best potential partner,

• Amazon has 80% of the UK book market

  1917 readersThe Institute of Direct Marketing, www.theidm.com, released a report last week. This report was based on a survey of 2,000 consumers in the UK. Of that number, about 7 out of 12 reported buying their books online, with 80% reported buying ebooks from ...

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  iPad and tablet users prefer digital texts says Gartner

  1689 readersCampus Technology is reporting on this Gartner survey.  Here’s a snippet: Acceptance of digital texts is way up, especially among users of iPads and other tablets. In fact, according to research released this week, time spent reading texts in digital formats now just about equals the time spent on paper-based texts. …According to the report,

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  People Mainly Use the Kindle Fire to (Gasp) Read

  812 readers We’ve all read lots of survey results on eReaders and who’s buying them, and here’s another one, only this time it’s focused on the Kindle and Kindle Fire. Citi released a report this week explaining the ‘buy’ recommendation they have on Amazon’s stock. As part of their research, they surveyed 1,100 online consumers here in the

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  Survey: Library Borrowers Buy Books Too!

  1037 readersMultiple sources are reporting today on this newly released survey (PDF) on the buying habits of library e-book borrowers. The survey questioned over 75,000 e-book borrowers, and found that more than half of them buy books, too. It also found that dedicated reading devices still account for a significant chunk of the market. (The survey was