Comments on: Forrester and WattPad on eBook trends

By: Missy Reed

Missy Reed — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:54:55 +0000

I too am interested in knowing the ebook trends such as how many people are now buying with the introduction of Kindle’s and such. I remember researching about ebooks just a few years ago and they had a stigma around it and now today they may be on the rise. I want to know if they are infact on a rise and will people with the introduction of e-readers be buying / downloading more ebook titles soon.

This brings excitement to people like me whom have had a manuscript sitting in my drawer for years because of the lack of avenues for it to be publiched. Creating a ebook is so simple and with instant delivery a plus in my situation. All of them book idea’s I had years ago is a possibility to become a reality now with the ease of creating a ebook.

I hope that e-readers and ebooks do become more widespread and that every person with a cell phone could download a ebook and read it right then. I think with the explosion of technology even with xbox360 and facebook this is a possibility.

I sure do hope so!!

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:51:02 +0000

I’m concerned that a reading device with too much multimedia would be distracting. When I read, I want the least amount of blinking eye-candy. I think this is one of the reasons it’s hard to read on a laptop. Apart from the screen itself, it’s too easy to get sidetracked by Twitter, email, YouTube, etc.

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:01:25 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. This is our first report so it is hard to include market trends related data. We will definitely include more information in future Wattpad Global Ebook Metrics Reports.