The Rise of e-Reading | Pew Internet | eBook Publishing World | Scoop.it

Excerpted from the article intro: "The average reader of e-books says she has read 24 books (the mean number) in the past 12 months, compared with an average of 15 books by a non-e-book consumer."


"21% of Americans have read an e-book. The increasing availability of e-content is prompting some to read more than in the past and to prefer buying books to borrowing them."


"Most of the findings in this report come from a survey of 2,986 Americans ages 16 and older, conducted on November 16-December 21, 2011, that extensively focused on the new terrain of e-reading and people’s habits and preferences.

One-fifth of American adults (21%) report that they have read an e-book in the past year, ..."


"Those who have taken the plunge into reading e-books stand out in almost every way from other kinds of readers.


Foremost, they are relatively avid readers of books in all formats: 88% of those who read e-books in the past 12 months also read printed books. Compared with other book readers, they read more books.


They read more frequently for a host of reasons: for pleasure, for research, for current events, and for work or school."


Informative. 7/10


Full article: http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/the-rise-of-e-reading/