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Jeff Gelles, Philadelphia Inquirer
Apr 5, 2012
Here's what's happening on the plugged-in side of the digital divide: an extraordinarily swift change in how people are reading books and other media, driven by the rapid acceptance of tablets and e-readers.
More than one in five Americans say th...
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Husna Haq, Christian Science Monitor
Apr 5, 2012
Some 21 percent of adults have read an e-book in the past year, according to a new study by the Pew Internet Project. What’s more, readers of e-books read an average of 10 books more per year than readers of print books.
According to the Pew repor...
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Report
Apr 5, 2012Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden, Joanna Brenner
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.
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Infographic
Apr 5, 2012
Asked to tell us what they like most about book reading, those who had read a book in the past 12 months gave a host of reasons that ranged from the highly practical to the sublime.
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Hillel Italie, Associated Press
Apr 4, 2012
Around 20 percent of adults have read an e-book since last year, according to an extensive new study, and the percentage of those owning an e-reader nearly doubled over the holidays.
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The 68-page report, "The Rise of E-Reading," was released Wedne...
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Cecilia Kang, Washington Post
Apr 4, 2012
A fifth of American adults have read an electronic version of a book in the last year, a trend that is fueling a renewed love of reading, according to a new survey.
The portion of e-book readers among all American adults has increased to 21 percen...
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Ian Simpson, Reuters
Apr 4, 2012
In a sweeping survey of e-books' impact on reading habits, the Pew report said that four times more U.S. readers, or 15 percent, were reading e-books on a typical day now compared with less than two years ago.
But when it comes to reading in bed, ...
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