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Kindle Ratio for 7 Oct 2010: 55%

So, having finished a book lately, time for another updated Kindle ratio. (I did the counting a few days before actually getting the post done, thus this being the ratio for the 7th not the 10th.) This is basically what percentage of the last 20 books I have read are available on Kindle. Last time I updated this this percentage went over 50% for the first time, thus triggering my determination that I “officially wanted a Kindle”. There were a couple of books already in the queue though, but this meant that my method of determining what I read next would now be biased toward books available on Kindle, and the first time a Kindle book was scheduled, I would go ahead and order the Kindle.

The book I finished prior to regenerating these stats was still a physical book though. As will be the next book finished. After that though, it has now been determined, a Kindle book. So the Kindle was ordered and is now in my hands. Woo! This means though that from this point forward my “Kindle Ratio” will be biased since my method of choosing books will be biased. It might still be interesting to see how long it takes this to get to 100% though, as my system does still allow me to pick non-Kindle books in several different situations. So for at least a little while, I’ll keep doing these updates. Until I get bored anyway. For now, we hold steady at 55%, or 11 out of the last 20 books I’ve read available on Kindle.

6 comments to Kindle Ratio for 7 Oct 2010: 55%

  • From BT via Facebook:

    hmm. you should do a book price comparison. lately the kindle book prices have skyrocketed. it’s quite upsetting.

    (35 minutes ago)

  • From SM via Facebook:

    I’ve never understood why people are so concerned about this. A couple bucks one way or another on the price of a book won’t affect my decision to purchase it. Unless it is an outrageously priced textbook or rare out of print book something I rarely even look at the price.

    Having said that, the whole maneuver that publishers did to take control and sell their titles directly (thus being able to set their own price) rather than the traditional wholesale model (where they sell to the seller, but then the seller can set whatever price they want) is kind of annoying, but hey, whatever. In the end it is supply and demand.

    And, in the end, supply of any digital content is infinite, so price falls to zero. The thing that is actually worth the money once you are talking about digital goods is no longer related to the content, it it just about the reliability of delivery and the actual experience of consuming.

    Business models just haven’t caught up to that yet.

    (a few seconds ago)

  • From BT via Facebook:

    uh, because books went from 9.95 for almost all of them to like 15 or 16 bucks. That’s a huge jump!

    (25 seconds ago)

  • From SM via Facebook:

    So far the two books I bought were $10.94 and $6.56. Perhaps I was just lucky. But as I said, I didn’t actually look at either of those prices prior to hitting the buy button. Yes, $16 is more than $10, but they are both prices in the realm of what I consider a reasonable price for a book, so I don’t think twice about it. Once you get over $20, then I start thinking about it a bit. (And there certainly are some books, and some Kindle books, in that price range, and I would still buy them if I wanted to read them, but I would think about it first. :-) )

    (a few seconds ago)

  • From BT via Facebook:

    well, it didn’t stop us from being a 2-kindle family…

    (15 hours ago)

  • From SM via Facebook:

    In our case, my Kindle is actually the 4th in the family. One of those is a Gen 1 Kindle with a cracked screen that isn’t used any more. (Although if you ignore the part of the screen that is messed up, it still works.) So three Kindles in active use. I was the late adopter in the family due to my insistence on 50% availability of the titles I was reading before buying. :-)

    (2 seconds ago)

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