Some 64 % of e-book
reading device owners had purchased the book, compared with 46 % of non-owners who had bought the book.
Overall, e-book
reading device owners read more books in a year than the general population.
Those who picked e-books were more likely to be ages 18 - 29 than other ages; more likely to live in urban areas; and to be book -
reading device owners under age 40.18
Overall, e-book
reading device owners were more likely to read for all of the following reasons, compared with all Americans 16 and older, and were also more likely to read for these reasons on a daily basis.23
Not exact matches
A majority of smartphone
owners reported using their
device for restaurant - related tasks, including looking up basic information about a restaurant, viewing menus,
reading online reviews, using rewards and special deals and ordering delivery.
One reason Kindle book sales have held their own is that
owners of iPads and other mobile
reading devices buy Kindle books, which they can
read on computers, iPhones, iPads, BlackBerrys and Android phones.
The real gem for Kindle
owners though is Whispersync, Amazon's integrated Cloud synchronisation software which not only backs - up purchased content but also synchronises your furthest
reading position across multiple Kindles or
devices using Kindle apps.
The overwhelming majority of eReader
owners interviewed in the 12 months ending October 31, 2010 (75 %) had
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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.
The overwhelming majority of eReader
owners interviewed in the 12 months ending October 31, 2010 (75 %) had
read a book on their
device in the last six months, compared to newspapers (18 %) and magazines (15 %).
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48 % of all
owners of e-book
reading devices such as original Kindles and NOOKs say they do not know if their library lends e-books.
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Amazon Prime subscribers can now
read more than 5,000 Kindle e-book titles for free thanks to a new service called Kindle
Owners» Lending Library, but only if you own a Kindle
device.
While you may well be excited about the Apple iPad and its iBookstore, iPhone and iPod touch
owners choosing not to upgrade to the newest 9.7 - inch
device can still get e-
reading on their iProduct right away thanks to a shelf - full of great e-book
reading apps available now in the App Store.
Whether it's offering manga for free
reading online to promote book sales as Viz Media is doing, offering chapter previews of each volume as Tokyopop is doing or simply offering manga to buy cheap - ish through
devices such as the iPad, be it as a new reader or an
owner of the paper book, there're some initiatives that seem to be working well for their audience.
Exercising caution with your wallet and keeping the card in your hands when using it is no longer enough: a restaurant's card
reading device can be infected with Trojans without the restaurant
owner being aware of it.
37 % of smartphone
owners read eBooks on their
device.
Some 63 % of the e-book
device owners who are
reading on any given day are
reading a printed book; 42 % are
reading an e-book; and 4 % are listening to an audio book.
Some 61 % of ereading
device owners said they purchased the most recent book they
read, compared with 48 % of all readers.
Device owners read more often.
The SDK will allow existing Google App
owners to tailor their programs to better suit a dedicated
reading device.
I find the interesting is Kindle is a dedicated
reading device &
owners convert quickly to the ease, convenience and the ability of its eInk screen to display is well l in sunlight.Thanks for this review.
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.
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.
The study found that nearly 2 in 5 U.S. tablet
owners read newspapers and / or magazines on their
device in August, with 1 in 10
reading publications almost daily.
Magazines / periodicals showed even higher readership rates than newspapers with 39.6 percent of tablet
owners reading magazines on their
device during the month.
The bookstores also provide free Wi - Fi connectivity for NOOK ®
devices,
Read In Store ™ access, which allows owners to read NOOK Books ™ for free, and the More In Store ™ program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promoti
Read In Store ™ access, which allows
owners to
read NOOK Books ™ for free, and the More In Store ™ program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promoti
read NOOK Books ™ for free, and the More In Store ™ program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions.
Kindle Fire
owners (and anybody with a Kindle
reading app) will be able to
read bestselling graphic novels like Watchmen, Batman and V for Vendetta on their new
devices, under the terms of a four - month exclusive deal DC Entertainment made with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) last week.
Apple has been more vocal and is rumored to have caught up to the Kindle in
device volume over just three months with its 3.27 million iPad sales, although only some
owners ever intend to
read non-web content on Apple's tablet.
A frequent question from
owners that I see is can this portable
reading device view PDF files and, if so, how?
Kobo has aggressively formulated business relationships with OEMs, retailers and content
owners around the world, creating an overall eBook solution that provides consumers the freedom to
read on any
device.
«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.»
There will be a slight change in the presentation of the store experience on the
devices, but all Story HD
owners will continue to enjoy the current experience, while benefiting from being able to
read their books across the full Google Play ecosystem.
Without any timeframe details,
owners of these
devices can at least rest assured... [
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They seem to believe that casual readers (users who don't think a dedicated
reading device makes sense) form a Long Tail that will end up being more important than eReader
owners and physical book buyers.
Besides all the books, Kindle has been the prime choice for
reading Word Documents, Web pages, email, and PDFs, ultimately making the
device the versatile choice for all the business
owners.
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).
We also asked e-Reader
owners about the types of content they're
reading on their
devices — and found major differences between iPad and Kindle
owners.
The DRM rules of the Reader allowed any purchased e-book to be
read on up to six
devices, at least one of which must be a personal computer running Windows or Mac OS X. Although the
owner could not share purchased eBooks on others»
devices and accounts, the ability to register five Readers to a single account and share books accordingly was a possible workaround.
Amazon is putting its pipeline in place and creating a world where Kindle
owners read books from the Kindle Store across all their
devices.
According to ChangeWave, 50 % of the iPad
owners surveyed said they
read newspapers with the
device and 38 % said they use it to
read magazines.
It was fun to
read the comments that Kindle
owners left in anticipation of the new
device.
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.
This is only for Kindle Unlimited books and does not show other books you have removed from your
device or books that you
read through Prime
Reading or the KIndle
Owners Lending Library (KOLL).
Allowing
owners to
read their Kindle books on the iPad means that users like me, who aren't interested in switching platforms or doing long stretches of
reading on an LCD screen, see this
device as complementing, not replacing the Kindle.
While you won't enjoy the huge selection of books and periodicals that Amazon's Kindle Store and Amazon Prime make available to Kindle Paperwhite
owners, the wide variety of file types that are supported — and therefore vast amount of content that Glo HD users can
read on their
device — will leave Kobo buyers satisfied with their purchase.
Whatever they stand to lose in hardware sales could easily be made up in ebook sales to all those Kindle
owners who want the peace of mind that they'll be able to
read their library on any
device in the future.
Microsoft Windows Phone 7
owners, like those with an Apple iPad or iPhone or Android and BlackBerry
devices, now have their own Kindle app for
reading e-books.
It seems that If You Want to Succeed in Business,
Read More Novels, even though Over half of surveyed e-reader
owners use
devices to conceal «shameful»
reading habits.