Sentences with phrase «ownership of tablet computers»

The surge in ownership of tablet computers was especially notable among those with higher levels of education and those living in households earning more than $ 75,000.

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

Washington (April 5, 2012)-- One - fifth of American adults (21 %) report that they have read an e-book in the past year, and this number increased following a gift - giving season that saw a spike in the ownership of both tablet computers and e-book reading devices such as the original Kindles and Nooks.

Noting «a spike in the ownership of both tablet computers and ebook reading devices» in the holidays, Pew's people get at a broader implication of just how fast digital - content consumption is growing by combining survey respondents who say they read books, news, and / or periodicals in digital formats of one - kind or another:

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Recent studies have examined tablet ownership, digital adoption among teenagers, and a host of other ways that computers and technology have become an incorporated part of daily life in America.

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

Ownership of both e-book readers and tablet computers has been growing slowly but steadily for the past few years.

Tablet computer and smartphone ownership have each increased dramatically in recent years, and a growing share of Americans are using these multipurpose mobile devices — rather than dedicated e-readers — to read books.

At the moment, ownership of e-book readers and tablet computers is concentrated among college graduates and those with relatively high household incomes.