A few weeks ago TeleRead asked readers to take a five-question, muti-choice reading survey using the Survey Gizmo service. 161 anonymous respondents took the survey in the first week of March 2008, and the results suggest that many favor SF, award-winning literature, thrillers and public domain classics---in fact, fiction in general. How many books and e-books have you paid for in the last year? 20+ books/ebooks 40% 11-20 24% 5-10 21% 0-4 15% If you have bought an e-book or digital text before, please indicate which type: (Choose one or more) fiction (75%) business or job-related topic (21%) technical/computer manual (19%) n/a; I have never bought an ebook (17%) something...

You may have noticed a few days ago that we added a sponsored ad on the right from the NAEB Cybook buyer's club. Both David and I are familiar with the Cybook family of devices and like the company. Regular readers may know that a buyer's club loosely affiliated with BAEN has been trying to arrange a mass order of e-book devices for interested buyers.  It's  a bit cheaper than buying directly from Cybook and includes a few extra accessories as well. Cybook has indicated a commitment to supporting open standards and maintained a balance between that and supporting one...

How to keep the TeleBlog sustainable without selling out to advertisers? Until recently, our response has been simple---we haven't tried to woo them. But both the writing and the behind-the-scenes tech work take time, and if we're to maintain our quality, we need to get paid. One solution is for us to use TeleBlog material elsewhere, and, in fact, David Rothman is adapting many of his posts here for Publishers Weekly, the bible of the book trade. But that in itself is not enough. So David and I are experimenting with advertisers. The deal for them will be this. We need...