I've never had a tweet RTed as much as the one above, with the exception of "RT if you own an ePUB compatible eReader".
Yesterday the whole idea of declaring affinity to one format/device or the other caught on with the Twitter community, and if you were one of those who RTed these tweets, then I suspect you will be interested in the result. So here we are:
ePUB is the clear winner now that the RTs have dried up, or so it would appear with a score of 45 vs 9. This isn't the whole story, however, since many tweeters instead of simply clicking RT performed a manual RT, which doesn't register. So we need to take into account those people too.
Here are the full "RT if you own a Kindle" results:
and here are the results for "RT if you own an ePUB compatible eReader":
You need to look carefully at these because you will notice that there are additional RTs, but the final totals with these RTs included are 30 to Kindle and 55 to ePUB. Again ePUB seems to be the winner. But as @llasram pointed out this is pitting a device against a format. Not to mention the fact that the tweet was rather ambiguous. Did I mean eInk devices only, or the iPad as well? (@FARfetched58 asked this question).
The truth is that like most tweets it was just a flicker of an idea, something I tweeted to see if it caught people's interest, and it did. You can't plan for this, I could have written pages and pages of rules and regulations, ways of defining an eReader - hardware or software, phone or not - and it might have received only one RT if that. You just never know with Twitter.
Above and beyond this, I am connected to a certain community on Twitter. Academics, who might have picked up on the open standard aspect of ePUB, and be interested in loan eBooks from their library. Also, people involved in the publishing and development of eBooks (see in particular #eprdctn), and these people often have both types of device.
In conclusion, while this was an experiment with an interesting result, I don't think it can be taken as indicating which format/device is really ahead in the eBook industry.
Yesterday the whole idea of declaring affinity to one format/device or the other caught on with the Twitter community, and if you were one of those who RTed these tweets, then I suspect you will be interested in the result. So here we are:
ePUB is the clear winner now that the RTs have dried up, or so it would appear with a score of 45 vs 9. This isn't the whole story, however, since many tweeters instead of simply clicking RT performed a manual RT, which doesn't register. So we need to take into account those people too.
Here are the full "RT if you own a Kindle" results:
and here are the results for "RT if you own an ePUB compatible eReader":
You need to look carefully at these because you will notice that there are additional RTs, but the final totals with these RTs included are 30 to Kindle and 55 to ePUB. Again ePUB seems to be the winner. But as @llasram pointed out this is pitting a device against a format. Not to mention the fact that the tweet was rather ambiguous. Did I mean eInk devices only, or the iPad as well? (@FARfetched58 asked this question).
The truth is that like most tweets it was just a flicker of an idea, something I tweeted to see if it caught people's interest, and it did. You can't plan for this, I could have written pages and pages of rules and regulations, ways of defining an eReader - hardware or software, phone or not - and it might have received only one RT if that. You just never know with Twitter.
Above and beyond this, I am connected to a certain community on Twitter. Academics, who might have picked up on the open standard aspect of ePUB, and be interested in loan eBooks from their library. Also, people involved in the publishing and development of eBooks (see in particular #eprdctn), and these people often have both types of device.
In conclusion, while this was an experiment with an interesting result, I don't think it can be taken as indicating which format/device is really ahead in the eBook industry.
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