Just 12 percent of
e-book readers they surveyed had checked one out from the library in the past year.
Not exact matches
Survey research from Pew Research Center indicates that the number of American adults who own a tablet or
e-book reader nearly doubled this past holiday season, rising from an estimated 10 % of the population in December to 19 % in January.
Ask yourself this, considering the fact we don't know who was
surveyed in the Pew study, is it any surprise that the majority of
readers had read printed books instead of
e-books?
Here's a very interesting informal but comprehensive
survey of
readers, not fellow authors or pundits, from Marie Force of the
E-book Formatting Fairies.
The dynamic duo also discussed news stories related to Mark J. Dawson's 10,000
reader survey, used
e-books, Bob Mayer's thoughts on traditional publishing, Dean Wesley Smith and the tale of how novels got their length, and Amazon's new giveaway service.
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.
Survey research from Pew Research Center indicates that the number of American adults who own a tablet or
e-book reader nearly doubled this past holiday season, rising from an estimated 10 % of the population in December to 19 % in January.
GRAHAMAnd what we're seeing — this was alluded to earlier on the discussion of some of the recent
survey information, is that some of the most avid users of
e-books remained avid
readers of physical books.
A recent
survey, published by ChangeWave research, asked the question «which of the following
e-book readers are you likely to buy?»
Nor do we know if those who took part in the
survey were asked a very simple set of questions: 1) Do you own a dedicated
e-book reader?
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.
After that, a modest number of questions about tablets and
e-book readers were asked in two
surveys conducted in January, with a margin of error of ± 2.4 percentage points; and the final
survey, on tablets and
e-books in a
survey, fielded from January 20 - February 19, 2012, with a margin of error of ± 2 percentage points.
After that, a modest number of questions about tablets and
e-book readers were asked in two
surveys conducted in January on an «omnibus»
survey.
In our December 2011
survey, 84 % of the «yesterday»
readers were reading print books and 15 % were reading
e-books.
While the sheer amount of
e-book readers are similar to those from a
survey conducted in 2016, there has been a modest but statistically significant increase in the share of Americans who listen to audiobooks, from 14 % to 18 %.
But that figure is statistically similar to the size of the
e-book reader population captured in a Pew Research
survey in 2014.
When we asked book
readers in our national
survey how, in general, they prefer to get their books, we found that a majority of print
readers (54 %) and
readers of
e-books (61 %) say they prefer to purchase their own copies of these books rather than borrow them from somewhere else.
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.
In our December 2011
survey, the majority of those who did not currently own an
e-book reader or tablet computer said they did not intend to buy them.
Input for the first
survey, «Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading Survey,» was gathered from hundreds of book buyers — including teens — who also identify themselves as e-book re
survey, «Consumer Attitudes Toward
E-Book Reading Survey,» was gathered from hundreds of book buyers — including teens — who also identify themselves as e-book re
E-Book Reading
Survey,» was gathered from hundreds of book buyers — including teens — who also identify themselves as e-book re
Survey,» was gathered from hundreds of book buyers — including teens — who also identify themselves as
e-book re
e-book readers.
E-book Formatting Fairies did a
survey of
readers in August 2013 that revealed fantastic insights into how
readers perceive books and authors.
The percent of U.S. adults with an
e-book reader doubled from 6 % to 12 % between November 2010 and May 2011 according to a recent
survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
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.
A recent
survey of
e-books» impact on reading habits in the US showed that four times more
readers were reading
e-books daily.
Perhaps most surprising of all is the fact that only 35 % of those industry insiders who completed the
survey quality themselves as
e-book readers and the majority (65 %) admitted to never reading
e-books.
The pre-holiday
survey conducted by the Project contained an oversample of owners of tablet computers and
e-book readers.
For the sake of comparison, we asked in our December 2011
survey if those who had read an
e-book in the past year had experienced several
e-book problems at bookstores or online retailers and found that 30 % of
e-book readers found the store or website did not carry the
e-book they wanted and 8 % found that the store / website version was not compatible with their digital - reading device.
In our December 2011
survey we found that 42 % of
e-book readers consume their books on a computer; 41 % of
e-book readers consume their books on an
e-book reader like a traditional Kindle or Nook.
In the December 2011 national phone
survey, we asked the 88 % of
e-book readers who did not borrow
e-books from libraries in the past 12 months whether they had tried do so: Only 4 % reported that they had attempted this, and 96 % had not.
In our nationally - representative phone
survey, the 12 % of
e-book readers who borrow
e-books from libraries are generally positive about the selection they are offered.
In a
survey conducted by Forrester, 12 percent of respondents said they had bought a tablet instead of an
e-book reader, and 39 percent of tablet owners said they wouldn't buy an
e-book reader in the future.
Results from the first installment in Volume Four of the
survey show 44 percent of
e-book readers prefer a tablet, up from 37 percent in the August 2012
survey.
A recent Pew
survey (HT: The Panic Virus) found that «across the board, people who use the internet and other digital devices — such as cell phones, tablet computers, and
e-book readers — are more frequent
readers than non-users.»