Sentences with phrase «among older readers»

The growing appeal of young adult titles among older readers has continued to bump up the age of book buyers for titles in that category.

Not exact matches

As the cards drop, readers meet the occupants, among them an elderly woman who remembers the street in post-Blitz ruins, a Pakistani shopkeeper and his quarrelsome brothers and a 17 - year - old soccer prodigy.

Unlike old - time liberals who busied themselves with finding «contradictions» in the Bible, and unlike fundamentalists who busied themselves with trying to explain away those «contradictions», these Bible readers see a series of robust arguments among the many voices of scripture.

Her original and award winning recipes have been published in Taste of Home magazine, Saltscape Magazine, Better Homes and Gardens Family Circle Hometown Cooking Cookbook, The Farmer's Almanac (2017), The Old Farmer's Almanac Readers» Best Recipes 25th Anniversary Edition Cookbook (2016), Safeway Destination Cheese Champions, among other publications and on several websites.

In the year ending in January 2012, the American Association of Publishers reported that e-book sales had risen more than 49.4 % in the adult books category, 475.1 % in the children's and young adult category, and 150.7 % in the religious publications category.5 We at the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reported that ownership of e-book readers among adults age 18 and older had nearly doubled from 10 % of the population to 19 % over the holiday gift - giving season at the end of 2011, and ownership of tablet computers had surged a similar amount.6 In the final week of 2011 the e-book version of 42 of the top - selling 50 books on USA Today's best - seller book list was outselling the paper version of the same book.7

Among e-book readers, there are no statistically significant differences between those ages 16 - 29 and those over age 30 regarding where they first turn for e-books; some 78 % of e-book readers under age 30 look for e-books first at an online bookstore (compared with 75 % of those over 30), while 16 % of younger readers look first at the public library (compared with 11 % of older respondents).

However, the e-reading rate among readers ages 65 and older remains around 17 %.

For older audiences, Sourcebooks developed the Shakesperience tablet - based platform that incorporates video clips, audio, hyperlinks, and more within the text of Shakespeare's works, bringing not only a new appreciation for the reader but also encouraging a deeper level of understanding and engagement among reluctant readers.

Overall, the number of people who have a tablet or an e-book reader among those 16 and older now stands at 43 %.

She also cites a common misconception among parents of the unsuitability of books, which can be considered too young or too old for a potential reader.

In terms of their reading on a typical day, while among readers device owners are slightly less likely than all readers 16 and older to have read a print book «yesterday,» they are much more likely to have read an e-book in the previous day — and are more likely to have read a book on a typical day overall.

But, as Larry Bodine at Law Marketing Blog points out, While the Young Stray, Serious Readers Still Follow Blogs, noting that blogging among 34 to 73 year - olds increased.