Aaron Cannon wrote:
If you haven't gotten around to completing this survey, let me encourage you to do so. Ellen is not just someone who dropped in here to get her survey filled out. She has been a volunteer for a while and helped out sending CDs and DVDs. Also, it doesn't take long at all.
I'm afraid that recruiting a significant portion of your respondents from gutvol-d will give you non-representative results. Also, many questions are `ambiguous': "I feel confident about my ability to purchase e-books online." I feel *very* confident about my ability to do so, but I would *never* do it. I would buy the paper edition, because I'm sure the paperbook remains usable if I have to change my bookshelves. Also I can lend the paperbook to my friends etc. The survey should be separated into 2 parts. Part 1 about the acceptance of free ebooks, Part 2 about the acceptance of fettered ebooks / DRM / proprietary devices / proprietary formats etc. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org