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.
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.
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.
Magazines / periodicals showed even higher readership rates than newspapers with 39.6 percent of
tablet owners reading magazines on their device during the month.
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.
Kindle Lending Library — As part of your Prime subscription, you get access to the Kindle
Owners» Lending Library, which lets you check out one e-book per month and
read that book on any Kindle e-reader or Fire
tablet.
Owners of Android smartphones and
tablets can now enjoy interactive storytelling from Disney, including digital storybook, activity, and creativity apps that invite families to
read, play, and create with characters they know and love.
The good news is that the rumored dates we nailed came true and you can be the proud
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The only way Nook
tablet owners will be able to continue
reading is if they download the Sainsbury's app from Google Play or the Good e-Reader App Store.
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.
Archos has just given people who own the 28/32/43 / 70 and 101
owners of their internet
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«This is a consistent judgment throughout different demographic and tech - owning groups,»
reads the report, although
tablet owners (14 percent) are more likely than those who don't own
tablets (7 percent) to say they prefer ebooks for this situation.
The fact that it does translation is cool and off - line
reading could be just what some WiFi
tablet owners are looking for!
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.
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.»
That makes it the perfect
reading tablet for Kindle
owners.
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).
To make
reading more enjoyable at night for Fire
tablet owners, Amazon is introducing Blue Shade.
With internet
tablets the buzz word at the moment, thanks to the Apple iPad and the HP Slate, Amazon looks to be getting a tad worried that Kindle
owners might jump ship for a better browsing experience.All that could be about to change, however, if...
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The EFUN Nextbook Next5 spec sheet
reads like the answer to every frugal, would - be
tablet owner's dreams.
iPad
owners are going to say, «so this is what an Android
tablet looks like,» Android phone
owners are going to say «I could really use this thing if I could find the link to the Android Marketplace,» and Kindle
owners are going to say «I don't need color and backlighting to
read.»
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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.
Asus has announced a new docking station for the Nexus 7
tablet at CES in Las Vegas.The new dock is as simple as it sounds, and gives Nexus 7
owners a chance to prop up there 7 - inch
tablet in landscape mode on a desk or bedside table.Around the back you'll...
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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.
The
tablet market in itself is wider than ever when they have to compete with major contenders and thus their speculation remains whether
tablet owners really want to
read.
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.
The new NOOK HD and NOOK HD + are optimized to deliver unparalleled experiences in the areas that company research showed NOOK
tablet owners use most:
reading, Web, video and email.
Following an initial roll - out in April, Microsoft - owned Skype has announced that
owners of Windows
tablets and Windows 2 - in - 1 devices can now enjoy free group video calls.There's no shortage of video - calling services these days, and that means companies...
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