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SURVEY: Top E-Reading Story of 2011?

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December 15, 2011
Looking back at a year full of change, new opportunities and new challenges for book publishing, what do you think was the most significant digital development?

By Edward Nawotka

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Digital media at the Frankfurt Book Fair. © Peter Hirth / Frankfurter Buchmesse

This past year in publishing was filled with a cacophony of new e-book related announcements, purported innovations, here-today-gone-tomorrow readers, and other noise. Looking back on the year, what stood out to you the most as the top e-reading story of 2011? Which, do you think, will have the most long-term impact?

In 2010, it was clearly the introduction of the Agency Model for e-book retailing.

What Was the Top E-Reading Story of 2011?

  • Self-published e-books go mainstream (38%, 20 Votes)
  • Bankruptcy of Borders blamed on e-books, among other factors (25%, 13 Votes)
  • International expansion of e-book acceptance (13%, 7 Votes)
  • 99-cent e-books dominate bestseller lists (12%, 6 Votes)
  • Crowdsourced digital publishing (8%, 4 Votes)
  • Extraordinary iPad apps (4%, 2 Votes)
  • Huh? I was too busy playing Angry Birds to notice (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 52

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