Poll Results (and a new poll)

Thank you to everyone who vote in the 2 polls I had up for the past week. I really appreciate the feedback. And in case you’re curious, here are the results:

Poll #1 – How would you prefer winners of giveaways to be notified?

Email only – 3 votes (4%)
Winner announcement on blog only – 1 vote (1%)
Both email and announcement on blog – 61 votes (93%)

I asked this because someone had recently contacted me asking if I had selected winners for a particular giveaway. I don’t like being left in the dark and neither do you. I will now email all winners and do a winner announcement post. I had stopped doing the winner announcement posts because I’m lazy.  (See, you spoke and I listened!)

Poll #2 – Would you prefer a giveaway for a bound book or an eBook? Keep in mind that giveaways for bound copies are usually restricted to US or US/Canada residents due to shipping costs. Whereas eBook giveaways are always international because email is free.

Prefer bound copies – 25 votes (49%)
Prefer eBook – 6 votes (11%)
No preference, either works for me – 20 votes (39%)

I asked this because an author recently asked me what my readers preferred. I honestly didn’t have the answer, hence the reason I put up the poll. And just so you know, any giveaway that I do where I personally purchase the books, I purchase them from The Book Depository because they ship for free pretty much anywhere in the world. However, when I host a giveaway for authors or publishers, there are usually shipping limitations (mainly US and US/Canada) because of the shipping expense. It can get pretty costly; not only are they providing the book (anywhere from 1-5 copies) but they also have the expense of shipping the copies to the 1-5 winners.

The results for the 2nd poll left me wondering how many readers of The Book Vixen have an eReader…? I think I smell another poll coming up!

If you’re reading this post, would you mind voting in the poll? I’m curious to see how many TBV peeps have one and which one they have :)