The holiday season is right around the corner and there have been a number of notable new e-readers that have been released in 2015. There are two specific models that have not been announced yet, but its expected a second generation Kindle Voyage and the Nook Glowlight Plus will be revealed sometime this month. We asked the question, what is the next e-reader you will buy and the data is very interesting.
Two weeks ago 582 people weighed in and voted on what e-reader is most appealing. The runaway winner by a wide margin is the second generation Kindle Voyage. It got 45.8% of the vote, which once again proves that Amazon has the best build quality when it comes to design and the Kindle bookstore is the destination of choice.
In a distant second position with 15.64% of the overall vote is the Barnes and Noble Nook Glowlight Plus. This e-reader attained FCC certification last month and the product listing was accidentally leaked a week ago. We broke the story earlier on in the year that Barnes and Noble was actively developing a new reader and the design was outsourced to Netronix. Barnes and Noble loyalists have been waiting with bated breath for a new reader, since the last one the bookseller released was in 2013.
The Kobo Glo HD was originally released earlier in the year and this e-reader is in 3rd place with 11.51% of the vote. This e-reader is being billed as a Kindle Voyage killer, since it has the exact same specs and only costs $129. It is quite surprising that this e-reader has proven to be quite popular with voters, but the Kobo Touch 2.0 that came out last month only captured 2.92% of peoples interest.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
