New Poll Finds Majority of Americans Read Ebooks

[yourlibrarian]

Thought others here might find this new article to be of interest.

"Some 54% of Americans currently read ebooks, according to the new poll, conducted in March 2014 among 2,234 U.S. adults. This result conflicts with a recent study from Pew, which found in January 2014 that 28% of Americans read an ebook in the last year.

The Harris Poll also found that those who read ebooks more read more books on average than other Americans. About a third of those who read ebooks exclusively or more than print read more than 20 books a year, while about a fifth of those who read more in print read more than 20 books a year.

Ebook readers also purchase more books, about double what other readers buy."

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Wow, that's fascinating and counter-intuitive.

I used to be a big print book buyer, but ebooks makes book buying so easy, so frictionless in the 21st century marketing jargon, that I only buy print books which celebrate their printed nature. That is to say graphic novels, comics, photography. Since these books tend to be slightly more costly per page retail than running text, perhaps my total spending hasn't changed?

[yourlibrarian]

And so portable too. It's a rare reader that would weigh more than a book and you can have a huge collection at your disposal.

I found the gender stats of particular interest.