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Survey saaays...
A grad student at U of Tennessee is conducting a survey about the viability of ebook tech for people in their 50's.
He named it Kindle Questionnaire, which I think is annoying, but I still encourage ebook readers in their 50's to go fill out the survey. I'll see if I can get my husband to go through it.
He named it Kindle Questionnaire, which I think is annoying, but I still encourage ebook readers in their 50's to go fill out the survey. I'll see if I can get my husband to go through it.
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Just late last year I gifted the m-i-l with a Sony PRS 600. Took a few minutes to show her how to use it and she's been in love ever since. Same thing with her daughter (age 49). Several of their friends have since gotten ebook readers after being shown how easy it is to use them. His survey really didn't have any questions that could show this kind of information :(
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The mobileread discussion has a critique of some parts; I expect it's like a lot of other ebook surveys I've seen. Most of them don't know the range of ebook readers available or how many *types* of sources of ebooks exist, and they're sloppy about reading habit questions because the author thinks "when/how do I read" and "when/how have my friends said they read, that's different from me?" rather than sorting out the scope of what & how people actually read.
Overall, I don't mind; I figure any survey that involves acknowledging the existence & use of ebooks is a good thing. I don't care if he puts together a report that says "most people over 50 don't know anything about ebooks" or "most people over 50 are good candidates for ebook readers" or "wow, our survey population of people over 50 are all fluent in ebooks." The point, from my perspective, is that he'll be saying, "Ebooks: Worth thinking about, more research would be good."
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Not sure I could put it together without pouring on the snark, though, which would likely discourage the people I'd want to use it.
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Which is probably why I shouldn't put together such a list. Or I should make a list of 50 facts, and set aside the first 30 because those will mostly be getting the snark out of my system.
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When new people show up, I sometimes try to warn them: here's your partial list of Instant Flamewar topics--piracy, drm, price-of-ebooks, geo-restrictions, amazon, pdf. Any thread centered on those--read all you like, make up your own mind; don't expect to persuade anyone of anything 'cos we have heard it *all* before and you're unlikely to find any new info to throw at us until you've read way too much random copyright wank.
Every once in a while, I bring up sexism in the thin hope that I'll see something other than five pages of "pseudonyms means you don't know what gender authors are, so how can you say there's any discrimination?" and "women dominate the romance industry; that means they get equal treatment as authors." I don't bring up racism or other forms of oppression.
What they do well is non-US-centrism, non-English-centrism. There are constant polite reminders that US copyright law isn't worldwide, and they welcome comments & questions about ebook/tech issues in countries that aren't the US.
They also manage to mostly not have factions--people can disagree vehemently on DRM rights and stand together on what's necessary for good ebook formatting; they can agree on Amazon's usefulness (or lack thereof) and disagree on best length of copyright. And the personal attacks really are kept to a minimum, with a nod to the fact that any 5-page or more thread about DRM is going to have some namecalling.
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