Pew Research’s latest e-reading survey, released yesterday, confirmed and added more context on various trends among those who read electronically. Of the nearly 3,000 adults surveyed between November and December 2011 (with two follow-up surveys in January and February 2012) a little more than one-fifth of American adults (or 21 percent) reported that they have read an e-book in the past year. That number, arrived at in February, increased from 17 percent as reported in December 2011, the spike attributed to holiday gift-giving. The average number of digital books read in a year was 24 among those surveyed, compared with […]
