One of the first to report on the connection between ebook borrowing and ebook purchasing was a report by Pew Research Center, the same organization that released a report yesterday
on the digital reading habits of consumers ages sixteen and up.
The Canada - based e-reading company has released a
report on digital reading habits, which has found that over three - quarters of the most prolific digital readers - meaning those who read for more than 30 minutes a day - are aged 45 and above.
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«OverDrive Read's support of EPUB3 fixed layout, HTML5, and synchronized audio enables publishers to produce a single eBook title
supported on any digital reading device with a modern browser.»
This information from Kobo is apart of their recent white
paper on digital reading that dirived from 16,000 customers over a period of a few months.
As things got underway at the annual Digital Book World conference in New York, one of the first news items to come was the results of an in - depth
study on the digital reading habits of some of the youngest ebook consumers in the marketplace.
«Amazon is the dominant force, it has cut a swathe and transformed our industry... It has a basic
monopoly on digital reading and this will increase it and indeed perpetuate it and all of us have our doubts about it.
The very idea of releasing a book but not letting libraries have access to it was unnerving to a number of ALA attendees, as they made clear in several
sessions on digital reading.
«The success of our previous line of Readers illustrates book lovers» demand for feature choices and full touch
screens on their digital reading devices,» said Phil Lubell, vice president of Digital reading at Sony Electronics.
The program provides public libraries with
training on digital reading devices, educational materials to help readers learn about the eBooks and digital texts available to them through their local libraries, and digital reading devices for library staff use.
By having the iPad Air 2's base model be at 16 GB it basically precludes users from downloading native digital magazines, encouraging replicas, and eventually encouraging readers from giving up
on digital reading altogether.
Hopefully, the worst thing to come from this data collection would be a stab at the artistry of writing, where publishers only take on projects that meet the guidelines of the latest
reports on digital reading or where authors feel pressured to adapt their plots lines and characters to the latest figures on what readers want.