Magazines / periodicals showed even higher readership rates than newspapers with 39.6 percent
of tablet owners reading magazines on their device during the month.
Over the summer months, more than 37 %
of tablet owners read a newspaper at least once, with more than 11 % of those consumers reading a digital newspaper on their devices every day; 39.6 %
of tablet owners read a digital magazine on their devices at least once during that same time frame.
In the three - month average period ending August 2012, 37.1 percent
of tablet owners read a newspaper on their device at least once during the month, with 11.5 percent of tablet owners reading newspapers almost every day.
Not exact matches
Data from the RJI Mobile Media News Consumption Survey finds an average
of 14 %
of smartphone
owners use them to
read books, versus 41 % using
tablets for
reading, three times greater than on smartphones.
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Owners of Android smartphones and
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They were also generally tech
owners — 18 %
of those who said they owned an e-book
reading device also said they planned to purchase a
tablet in the next six months.
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The e-book is then transferred over to the new
owner, and they can
read it on a Fire
Tablet, Kindle e-reader, Kindle for PC or one
of Amazons apps for Android or iOS.
«In all, the number
of owners of either a
tablet computer or e-book
reading device... grew from 18 percent in late 2011 to 33 percent in 2012.»
According to the same Pew survey, «41 %
of tablet owners and 35 %
of e-reader
owners said they were
reading more since the advent
of e-content.»
In addition, the incidence
of magazine
reading among
tablet owners closely mirrors that
of the general population although the volume
of reading is above average, 4.1 titles per month vs. 3.7, an 11 % increase.
If big players are focusing on digitizing their content to be displayed on
reading devices, the question is whether you are ready to deliver your work to
owners of the new devices (i.e. smartphones,
tablets, and eReaders).
Now it is an observable fact that Kindle and
tablet owners buy an inordinate number
of books that they never
read.
If you're a new
owner of a Barnes & Noble Nook
Tablet, you're in for a treat — the sleek device is exceptional for
reading magazines and newspapers, surfing the web and storing plenty
of exciting apps.
Another way to look at that data is to note that people who specifically own e-reading devices (readers and
tablets) are particularly likely to
read e-books: 93 %
of e-reader
owners consume e-books on their traditional Kindle or Nook at least occasionally; 81 %
of tablet owners consume e-books on their
tablet; 46 %
of computer
owners consume e-books on their computer; and 29 %
of cell phone
owners read e-books on their phone.
The digital content readers who said they were
reading more stood out in several respects: 41 %
of tablet owners and 35 %
of e-reader
owners said they were
reading more since the advent
of e-content.
One major difference is that those who own handheld e-
reading devices like e-readers or
tablets are more likely to say e-books are preferable to print books for
reading in bed: 53 %
of device
owners say e-books are better than print books in this situation, compared with 45 %
of all print and e-book readers.
56 %
of tablet owners use social networking services on their device, while 51 % consume music and / or videos, and 46 %
read ebooks.
While
owners of Amazon's kind
of lame Kindle Fire have been able to flip their devices for years they've also had battery - hogging, full color
tablets designed to do a lot more than just
read ebooks really well.
According to the survey, 84 %
of tablet owners play games, ahead
of even searching for information (78 %), emailing (74 %) and
reading the news (61 %).
Eighty - four percent
of tablet owners list gaming as their «most popular»
tablet activity followed by searching for info (78 %) and emailing (74 %), according to a recent survey
of 1,430
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Surprisingly,
of the 12 Nook
owners, 10 had rooted their eReaders to make them more functional and most
of them said that they enjoyed the
tablet functionality more than using them for
reading.
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