Newresearch from Pew Internetsays that ebook readership is up ( duh ) , and overall we own more tablets and ereaders . That ’s not all that surprising , really . Still , here ’s a flavour at how America read .
According to data pile up from more than 2,000 participant in the Pew Research Center ’s Internet & American Life Project , the number of people who read ebooks increase to 23 percent of Americans 16 and elderly , from 16 percent last year . That ’s a heavy jump statistically , and coincides with the number of people who own a tablet or ereader going from 18 percent to 33 percent . And tablet possessor in reality passed ereader owners this year too , which makes sense hand ereaders had a few - year drumhead start , and this is the yr inexpensive tablets actually nonplus good with the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD .
The study also said that 75 percent of Americans have read a account book in the past yr , which seems , weirdly , both surprisingly high and surprisingly low at the same time ( the number was 78 percent for 2011 ) . Here ’s how thatbreaks down by routine of Christian Bible :
7 % of Americans long time 16 and old read one Word of God in the previous 12 month
14 % had understand 2 - 3 books in that time block
12 % had read 4 - 5 rule book in that clip block
15 % had take 6 - 10 books in that clock time block
13 % had read 11 - 20 books in that time block
14 % had record 21 or more volume in that sentence block
Hey now ! Literate Muricans ! The one sad thing in all this is that printed books continue to precipitate . They went from being read by 72 per centum of Americans to 67 pct this year . And unlike the drop from 78 percent to 75 for overall readership , Pew get that statistically significant . So ! Great yr for ebooks , really big twelvemonth for tablets , and one more depressing stave down for paper Quran . [ Pew ]
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