In some cases, the yields are as high as 1.3 %, and these accounts come with full FDIC protection up to $ 250,000 per person, per bank, for
a given ownership category.
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