Sentences with phrase «e-book readers ages»

Some 78 % of e-book readers ages 16 - 29 said that they usually look for it first at an online bookstore or website, and 16 % said they tend to look first at their public library.

Some 23 % of e-book readers ages 16 - 29 read e-books on an e-reader like a Kindle or Nook, and just 16 % read e-books on a tablet computer.

Not exact matches

I am an avid reader of e-books, for their accessability, the ease for my hands as I age and cant hold the books as easily as I once did.

WASHINGTON - The most likely book readers in the United States are high - school students, college - age adults and people in their 30s, with e-book use highest among 30 - somethings, a survey released on Tuesday showed.

The app is currently being developed by a team of tech leaders working with the New York Public Library, the Digital Public Library of America, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and will provide readers aged 4 to 18 years old, from low - income homes, with thousands of free e-books.

Is it as we would stereotypically think that younger readers are quicker to embrace e-books, or is it — does it not break down by age?

Another new age twin screen e-book reader to invade the market is the Entourage Edge.

Apple and Amazon are the two biggest players in the tablet and e-book reader segment respectively, though it's the iPad that might just have edged past the Kindle as far as the product's age and resale worth is concerned.

Print is still more popular than e-books amongst readers aged 16 - 24, although teenagers are more likely to read e-books than their older counterparts, according to...

In this age of rapidly changing technology, more and more gadgets are being introduced worldwide, be it smartphones, laptops, tablets or e-book readers.

Print is still more popular than e-books amongst readers aged 16 - 24, although teenagers are more likely to read e-books than their older counterparts, according to the results of a survey carried out for The Bookseller Children's Conference.

Barnes and Noble launched the Nook, the coming - of - age handheld e-book reader with wireless connectivity, color touch screen with navigation — both intuitive and easy.

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

But during the most recent holiday season, we saw a major spike in ownership.12 In mid-January, we reported that 19 % of adults ages 18 and older owned an e-book reader, and 19 % owned a tablet computer, up from 10 % ownership for each device in mid - December.13

The distribution of types of e-book readers that we saw in our February survey has barely shifted from December 2011, when 63 % of e-reader owners age 18 and older owned a Kindle and 23 % owned a Nook.

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).

E-book reader and tablet ownership are strongly correlated with income and education, and are also most popular with adults under age 50.

Yet e-book readers under age 30 are actually less likely than older e-book readers to own e-readers, and instead consume their e-books on a desktop or laptop computer (55 %) or cell phone (41 %).

In fact, a majority of e-book readers under age 30 consume their e-books on a desktop or laptop computer; the second most popular method is by cell phone (41 % read their e-books this way).

Among e-book readers, there were no differences among age groups for checking out e-books.

ALA President Maureen Sullivan said in a statement «I am so pleased Macmillan Publishers is beginning to sell e-books to America's libraries so that we may connect their authors and our readers in the digital age.

By following a freemium - based model, Blloon is an app that promises to engage readers with e-books (particularly those aged between 18 and 28).

But with its Kindle reader ($ 400), Amazon has brought the e-book into the connected age by including free EV - DO wireless connectivity to the e-commerce giant.

We conducted this exploratory study with our SciPlay partners at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York in an effort to tackle some of the questions we have about the growing popularity of e-books among readers of all ages.

It's through forward - thinking and innovative ideas like developing their own e-book readers and e-book stores, and offering free e-books and other incentives to get people into bookstores, that bookstores can remain relevant long into the digital age.

The leading e-book devices, Amazon's Kindle and the Sony Reader Digital Book, allow you to scale the font, which is good for readers with visual difficulties or aging eyes.

And the consumer opinions on e-books is based on a survey from January 2011 of 10,000 readers about e-books, and is representative of the 64 million Germans aged 10 or older.

People age 45 to 54 are the biggest readers of e-books this year.

When they want to read a particular e-book, e-book readers under age 30 have the same general habits as older readers.

Among those who own tablet computers and e-book readers, women read more books than men (23 books on average in the past year vs. 19); whites read more books than minorities (23 books on average in the past year vs. 16); those who have owned the device more than a year read more books than newer purchasers (24 books on average in the past year vs. 20); and those over age 40 have read more books than those under 40 (22 books on average in the past year vs. 19).

«That the libraries would be able to loan e-book readers to patrons, that the children's section would have greater technology resources that introduces them to e-reading at an early age.»

In this digital age of e-book readers, smartphones and tablets, it may seem that paper books will soon go the way of the dinosaur as outdated relics, rather than relevant icons of our times.