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Tablet and E-reader Ownership Update. Up from 25% last year, more than half of those in households earning $75,000 or more now have tablets. Up from 19% last year, 38% of those in upper-income households now have e-readers. presentationJun 29, 2013.
Key findings: A fifth of American adults have read an e-book in the past year and the number of e-book readers grew after a major increase in ownership of e-book reading devices and tablet computers during the holiday gift-giving season. A pre-holiday survey found that 17% of Americans age 18 and older had read an e-book in the previous 12 ...
The Rise of E-Reading. Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, shared findings from a new report on e-book lending at libraries. He also discussed other research about the rise of e-books, their impact on people’s reading habits, and the way that library patrons are hoping to avail themselves of e ...
Part 3: E-reading Device Ownership. In the December 2011 survey and follow-up surveys of January 2012 there was major growth in ownership of e-reading devices like Kindles and Nooks and in tablet computer ownership. In the January survey, we found that 21% of urban residents, 20% of suburban residents, and 14% of rural residents had tablets.
Overall, 75% of U.S. adults say they have read a book in the past 12 months in any format, whether completely or part way through, a figure that has remained largely unchanged since 2011, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted from Jan. 25 to Feb. 8, 2021. Print books remain the most popular format for reading, with 65% of adults ...
About four in ten Americans (41%) say that libraries should “definitely” make most services automated, so people can find what they need and check out material on their own without help from staff. Some 36% say libraries should “maybe” do this, and one in five (20%) say libraries should “definitely not” do this.
Fully 59% of e-book readers said in our December survey that they were reading a book “yesterday” – the day before they were contacted in our survey, compared with 41% of those who do not read e-books who said they had read a book “yesterday.”. Among e-book readers, 50% who read books on a typical day are reading an e-book and 58% are ...
Overview Ownership of both e-book readers and tablet computers has been growing slowly but steadily for the past few years. But during the most recent