A panel at Digital Book World last week offered several insights on how ebook platforms analyze user data and what they have discovered. What will be perhaps most interesting to our readers are a handful of insights shared about international reading habits.
Kobo's Michael Tamblyn pointed out that you see significant differences between French, Italian and Dutch readers finishing books, where the rate runs between 60-70%.
"It is actually readers in the United States who are the most fickle," he said. "And in Japan, the books are often short, so the reading activity around manga and comic books is very different. People might read two or three of those a day."