Friday 11 September 2015

Marie Force's 2015 Reader Survey

source: Fotofolia
With more than 4 million books sold, Marie Force is the New York TimesUSA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling, award-winning author of more than 40 contemporary romances. 
She also writes Erotic Romance as M.S. Force. 


Marie made the front page of her home state newspaper, with a story about her start as a traditionally published author, how she struck out on her own to become self-published and her success now as a hybrid author. 

Read about Marie's journey, which began more than eight years ago and recently resulted in two of her self-published books appearing on the New York Times bestseller list.

2015 READER SURVEY
By Marie Force

Two years after I conducted the first Reader Survey in 2013, I decided to re-run the survey to see what, if anything has changed in the last two years. The survey was conducted from May 6 to June 6, 2015 via Survey Monkey.

 The number of survey respondents more than doubled between 2013 and 2015, from 2,951 to 5,990. Readers were notified of the survey by authors via social media platforms and newsletter notifications.

Disclaimer: this survey is NOT intended to be scientific. It is exactly what it appears to be:questions posed by authors and answered by readers. We make no claims that the survey is anything more than that.

With nearly 6,000 respondents–twice as many as in 2013–readers have let us know their thoughts on a wide range of topics.

We discovered that ebooks are still hot, Amazon and iBooks are growing, Nook is down a little, most readers aren’t jumping to join subscriber services and Facebook remains the primary way that readers connect with their favorite authors.

To read more about the survey results, go to Marie’s website;

Cheers
Ashlyn



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