Kat Meyer Discusses eBook Pricing

By • Feb 16th, 2009 • Category: 26th Story, Books, Technology

Kat Meyer was in town for the O’Reilly TOC Conference, so we asked her to come by to say hi and talk about ebooks with us.

She’s discussing ebook pricing in this clip, though she wrote to me later to say that she she was wrong about the number of books women who took the survey buy.  Turns out it’s two to five books per month.  You can check out the Booksquare blog for the wrap up of the TOC Smart Women Read Ebooks panel.

 

Kat may not have been perfect with the numbers this time………but she’s always a treasure trove of info, and her blog and tweets fun and informative.

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  • http://www.thearsonistaffair.com Madison “Girl Arsonist” McGraw

    Kat – Excellent idea regarding kid friendly e-readers!

    What a great cover for Time magazine – A mother and young daughter sitting side by side reading with their Kindle (or whatever eReader).

    I think “junior” eReaders is a concept EVERYONE can agree on!

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  • http://booksquare.com Kassia Krozser

    Just a quick note to further :) correct the numbers. Our readers generally purchased 2 – 5 ebooks *and* print books per month (combined 4 – 10), with somewhere in the 20% range purchasing more. Reading rates were a bit higher on a monthly basis. So many numbers, and we were focused on ebooks in our discussion. Another interesting note: readers price shop for ebooks. I didn’t see that one coming, though, yeah, it makes sense!

    I’m a bit jealous that Kat got to meet you! We must have been ships and all that during the conference.

  • http://theharperstudio.com Debbie

    @ Kassia — Thanks for the numbers clarification. I heard a lot of great things about that panel. I’m going to print out the presentation. Is there a video of it? I couldn’t find it. And re meeting in person — I wish I’d organized myself better and made that happen. Please keep me posted about when you’re coming back to NYC so we can get together in the real world!

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  • http://booksquare.com Kassia Krozser

    Debbie — glad to help. And, if I do say so myself, my panel rocked. My job was to step aside and let them do their thing. And they were all awesome. I’m all about basking in the glory of my smarter friends! There might be video. And if you want the raw data (understanding that I am not in any way an expert in polling, surveying, or associated fields!), dm me. There’s a lot of commentary from readers that I found fascinating.

    Next year, we will have our respective acts together. Or I’ll just twist Kat’s arm…she gets stuff done.

  • http://thebookishdilettante.com Kat Meyer

    you two — Kassia – you should have been there instead! I was so excited about your panel, and seriously want to get that info out (even if not accurately!).
    Debbie: thank you so much for your kindness and hospitality. Meeting everyone at HS was a huge thrill and delight and gives me great hope for the future of bookish types everywhere.
    p.s. – your office looks great and thanks for the bagel and diet coke!

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