According to our poll, the Kindle store is (very unsurprisingly) the most shopped e-bookstore right now, with 36% of respondents saying it’s their top choice for e-books.
What is slightly surprising, however, is that in second place is the “other” option, which allowed respondents to enter their own text. Almost 24% picked this option, and the most popular responses among them were Kobo, iFlow Books and Books on Board.
Update: In response to a request, here are the other stores named more than once by respondents to the “Other” category: AllRomance, Ellora’s Cave, and publishers’ own Web sites and e-bookstores.
Nook came in 3rd, followed by iBooks, with Sony dead last, beaten even by the three-day-old Google Ebookstore.
Of course these results are by no means definitive, representing a random sampling of PWxyz readers who felt like responding over a 24-hour period. But this poll may point toward a few likely facts: B&N probably has less of a share of the market than it wants to (though that may change as the Nook Color takes hold); most likely, relatively few serious e-book readers use the iBookstore; and readers are interested in exploring the Google store and incorporating it into their reading and buying habits.
